Up until today, the traffic pane in the widget and the tray icon would work as normal, but then now, they both act as if there’s no traffic. The check box for both are enabled. Is there some other reason why they’re both not working now?
Also, the graph in Killswitch doesn’t show up (The CPU, I/O, and Physical Memory graphs are showing as normal). The numbers are updating, but the actual graph itself is empty, as if there were no traffic. Occasionally, there’s an impossible spike in traffic very briefly. Earlier it said that there had been 819 meg both in and out in one second, but then traffic returned to normal afterward. That’s somewhere around 800x the speed available to me. Are these bugs?
Hi and welcome EricNorris,
Have you had any recent system changes or updates that might have occurred around the time this issue started happening?
Thanks.
It’s set to automatic and it’s currently running. I’m using Window 8, btw.
I went to check KillSwitch, which has been open since I woke this computer up from a hibernate, and the network graph wasn’t showing. I closed it down and re-opened it, and the graph is showing again.
I was using utorrent back then when the problem initially occurred. Since my system restore, I hadn’t reinstalled it, at least until a couple days ago. I installed that, and downloaded some torrents. Later that evening, my router cut me off from internet access because of an “excessive sessions warning”, which could be caused by a blaster type virus, or sometimes by file sharing programs. I sure hope mine is the latter! My router wouldn’t let this computer connect to the internet again until I changed the firewall in it to allow excessive sessions. Did that. At the same time, Comodo’s gone into yellow “Needs Attention” mode because it wants a license key. When I got back online, the traffic animations no longer worked on the widget nor the tray icon. The checkbox is still checked. The graph in Killswitch is still showing up fine.
That was last night. I turned my computer on this morning, and the widget is now displaying traffic again, however the tray icon is still lacking the animation.
What’s stranger is how under “View Connections”, it says there’s 3009 outbound connections, utorrent is NOT open, and only two of those connections are showing up, both being this browser. I ran a full scan with Malwarebytes and found nothing.
There seem to be exactly 3007 outbound connections that aren’t showing up. The number that show up in that window is whatever number above 3007 there are. ???
Edit: Restarted, offline, still 3007 outbound connections.
P2p programs default settings are usually high for the amount of simultaneous connections. Not all routers handle those well. For testing I always advice to start with a conservative number of 50 and then go up to 100, 150.
My router wouldn't let this computer connect to the internet again until I changed the firewall in it to allow excessive sessions. Did that. At the same time, Comodo's gone into yellow "Needs Attention" mode because it wants a license key.
Are you using a paid version of Comodo?
When I got back online, the traffic animations no longer worked on the widget nor the tray icon. The checkbox is still checked. The graph in Killswitch is still showing up fine.
Can you reproduce that the behaviour that traffic animation stops after your router has blocked your internet access? We may be looking at a minor bug here.
That was last night. I turned my computer on this morning, and the widget is now displaying traffic again, however the tray icon is still lacking the animation.
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Just for clarification. You switched on your computer after it was shut down the night before; it was not starting from sleep mode or hibernation?
What's stranger is how under "View Connections", it says there's 3009 outbound connections, utorrent is NOT open, and only two of those connections are showing up, both being this browser. I ran a full scan with Malwarebytes and found nothing.
There seem to be exactly 3007 outbound connections that aren’t showing up. The number that show up in that window is whatever number above 3007 there are. ???
Edit: Restarted, offline, still 3007 outbound connections.
What process is responsible for these connections? Can you check and post a screenshot?
2- I re-enabled that option on my router, got the same message about excessive sessions, disabled it, and the traffic on the widget is still showing up normally, and the tray icon isn’t animated. So I can’t seem to replicate it.
3- Shut down. Sleep mode broke my Comodo installation a few too many times.
4- None. At least according to CIS and Killswitch. svchost.exe and my browser show up, raising the number above 3007, but when I get rid of those or go offline, I’m left with a blank View Connections box, despite the 3007 number persisting.
Also, my utorrent is set to a global maximum of 200 connections.