2:1 Down:Up internet traffic ratio?

[Matan Ziv-Av]

On Tue, 24 Mar 2009, Dotan Cohen wrote:

> I just noticed this info in my modem's interface:
> Data Transmitted	1285141280 bytes
> Data Received	2111269904 bytes
>
> Could it really be that normal internet browsing and emailing produces
> only a 2:1 downloaded:uploaded ratio? I figure with youtube and all
> the images on websites that the ratio would be much higher. We do not
> do any filesharing or other p2p activities. And the network consists
> of two linux machines, so I doubt that there may be a malware
> infection. Can anybody shed some insight?

Maybe the counters wrap at 4GB?


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Matan.