Protocols

[Hitesh0528]

i was wondering what protocols would use up bandwidth

besides HTTP and FTP

 

[office politics]

every protocol uses bandwidth, please be more specific.

 

[nak-1]

Are you asking what protocols are eating up your bandwidth or what protocols tend to be associated with high bandwidth demands?

A protocol is a set of rules that determines how to send and receive requests and information so that parties on both sides can be sure they are talking the same language.

Certain networking protocols have been defined for a variety of different processes you may want to use across a network. I think that theorectically any of them can use up your full bandwidth.

I feel that you are really asking about what is using up your bandwidth. If so post details of what you want to know and preferably what got you thinking about it in the first place. ie. Are you seeing more of your bandwidth used than you expect to and you're trying to work out what it is that's using it up, or are you just interested in whats making up the traffic over your connection?

 

[Hitesh0528]

i want to know what is eating up my bandwidth

 

[nak-1]

Then you need to look at what networking applications or services you have enabled.

Post what OS you are running and what you use your network for. (Surfing the web, peer to peer networking etc.)

 

[office politics]

http://www.ethereal.com/ - Ethereal: A Network Protocol Analyzer

this will show you exactly whats traveling across your line.