Spice300
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join:2006-01-10
| reply to RitaCeleste
Re: Bandwidth Monitors
There is a theory that the FAP meter is located in the gateway and counts everything addressed to your computer that enters the gateway, rather than what actually makes it to your computer. The Sky-X gateways at the gateway prefetch the entire page from the Internet and then send it to you in chunks. If you cancel a page load before it completes, your computer may receive only a fraction of the page, but the FAP meter in the gateway, having received the entire page, counts all of it. Observations of my usage are consistent with this theory because WB's FAP meter tends to over-report my usage when I browse and cancel page loads, but is pretty accurate when I download or stream video.
If the big discrepancies between your actual usage and the FAP meter occur when you visit a particular site, then the problem is related to the site. I am not sure if enabling auto config script would cause discrepancies, but you could always try turning it off to test it.
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