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I play a lot of games, and I noticed about a week or two back that my ping had become very erratic (jumping between 170 and 300 in LoL, where it's normally a flat 170). I assumed it was because of my bro running torrents, so I went to his laptop (which runs Linux) and turned them off. Funny thing is, my ping kept on spiking. So I did the usual checks, and I thought maybe there's something still going on on his machine, so I unplugged it from the network. Guess what happens? My ping returns to a flat 170.
He has some kind of network monitoring tool open, so I go back, plug his machine in and see what happens. After a few minutes I see an error about failing to connect to the FTP for his OS. So I assume that's what's causing the spikes. His OS is trying to get updates but is failing to do so. I tell him about this when he gets back home and he tells me he'll fix it.
Now apparently he's fixed it, but guess what? Whenever his machine is plugged into the network, I still get ping spikes like his machine is uploading something to the internet. If it was a Windows machine, I'd say he picked something up from a porn site. Now I don't know much about Linux, so I was wondering if there's some kind of malware on his machine? I can't test it now, but tomorrow I'm going to connect his laptop to the network using wireless and see what happens.
I was just wondering if anyone had any suggestions on what I should be looking for.
I play a lot of games, and I noticed about a week or two back that my ping had become very erratic (jumping between 170 and 300 in LoL, where it's normally a flat 170). I assumed it was because of my bro running torrents, so I went to his laptop (which runs Linux) and turned them off. Funny thing is, my ping kept on spiking. So I did the usual checks, and I thought maybe there's something still going on on his machine, so I unplugged it from the network. Guess what happens? My ping returns to a flat 170.
He has some kind of network monitoring tool open, so I go back, plug his machine in and see what happens. After a few minutes I see an error about failing to connect to the FTP for his OS. So I assume that's what's causing the spikes. His OS is trying to get updates but is failing to do so. I tell him about this when he gets back home and he tells me he'll fix it.
Now apparently he's fixed it, but guess what? Whenever his machine is plugged into the network, I still get ping spikes like his machine is uploading something to the internet. If it was a Windows machine, I'd say he picked something up from a porn site. Now I don't know much about Linux, so I was wondering if there's some kind of malware on his machine? I can't test it now, but tomorrow I'm going to connect his laptop to the network using wireless and see what happens.
I was just wondering if anyone had any suggestions on what I should be looking for.
