Hi guys, I have a weird one for you today.
I ship with UPS and often use their site UPS.com. While on the site, seemingly on any random page, the site all of a sudden seems to suck up ALL of my upstream bandwidth. I only have a 1Mbps upstream link, but still... This is the only website this happens with. It happens regardless of browser, having tried Chrome, Explorer, Edge, and Firefox. It does not happen right away every time, sometimes I have to spend a minute browsing random pages on UPS.com before it happens, but every time it does eventually occur.
This next part is Chrome specific and I have not tested in the other browsers. When on the site in Chrome and this happens, closing the UPS.com Chrome tab has no effect. The bandwidth continues to be taken up. Even closing that Chrome window does not stop it. I have to close ALL Chrome tabs and windows to stop the problem. Stranger still, the Chrome task manager (which you open with SHIFT-ESC) does not show this network usage, even though it stops when I quit Chrome.
So, I was wondering if any of you, you know, having copious amounts of spare time as I am sure you all do, I mean, you are reading this after all, would mind opening up your routers bandwidth monitor and then spending a few minutes browsing UPS.com (go all over for a minute or two) to see if you can duplicate this issue and let me know! And of course, if anyone has an idea of what the issue is, please share!
Remember that you are looking for an upload take up of around 1Mbps at least.
Signed... A Wisconsinite Glad it is Spring (but afraid of a rapid melt and flood)