Funky problem

[wir]

I'm connected to mweb(4mbit) with a PPPoE connection and using a Billion 400G router on multiple session mode.

For some reason when I'm dialed with PPPoE, there is some weird constant network activity, I'm uploading 50kb/s to the LAN connection and downloading the same amount with my PPPoE connection.

Nothing shows up in Resource Monitor or in Netlimiter. They show no processes or programs doing this.

I don't think it's been negatively affecting anything on my PC, offline or online. It's just a curiosity that's worrying me a bit.

 

[Pada]

Disable the wireless on your modem as a start, or setup a WPA2 password of at least 8 characters on it instead.
This way you can be sure that no one is hacking into your ADSL via wireless.

Secondly, I'd suggest that you dial the PPPoE connection from the ADSL modem and not from a PC. This way you can be sure that it is firewalled against malicious incoming traffic.
Also, enable the "ADSL Protected Access" on your MWEB account. You can do that here: http://myadsl.mweb.co.za/UncappedMain.aspx
Use your MWEB PPPoE details, but you might have to change the @dslmweb.co.za to just @mweb.co.za when it prompts for a username and password at https://www.signmein.co.za/

Now if you see traffic flowing throw the PPPoE connection on your ADSL modem (which I have no idea on how you're going to do that), then it should show up on NetLimiter if your PC is the only one connected to the ADSL modem.

At my flat I'm using MikroTik RouterOS on an HP Microserver N36L to dial my PPPoE connections, and RouterOS has a Torch function where you can see what PC is causing the network (Internet) traffic.

 

[wir]

The router does dial a PPPoE connection which I firewalled quite strictly, since some of the people in the household tend to try and p2p 24/7. I'm dialing PPPoE from my PC to bypass the router firewall, and I'm quite confident in my own pc security.

The odd traffic only happens when I've dialed the PPPoE from my PC. Though it's been gone for most of the day so far.