Telkom down but data still transferred?

[silkman]

Our Telkom lines are down at work but if I click on my network connection icon I see a helluva lot of data being sent and received although
Internet, email all down.
why?

 

[killadoob]

well because telkom lines and adsl are not the same

your adsl can be down but your telephone lines working and visa versa

 

[silkman]

no i mean my Telkom ADSL line is down. I cannot connect to the internet but I still see packets being sent and received

 

[leelo]

There are a lot of things, you said "at work" and your wording suggests multiple users - ie. you are not the only one at that office.

1. Someone has a virus and it is broadcasting - Broadcasts have to be processed by your CPU, which is why your machine sees packets. - hence the network activity on your network card

2. You have a file/print server, you have a document/program open on the file server and there are network keep alive messages holding a drive mapping or connection open for this document/program - hence the network activity on your network card

3. You have an email server, your client will need to continually check with that server to see if you have mail - hence the network activity on your network card

I could go on and on, but the bottom line is that if there are just a handful of machines on a network, there will always be network traffic, keep alive messages, MSBrowser announcements, DHCP messages etc etc etc

 

[The_Unbeliever]

What leelo said.

There always will be network traffic on an internal network, especially a busy office. Even if the adsl line goes down, the traffic will always be there.

Like a big city who've just lost its main highway out, the cars will still be able to drive from house to house, but nobody will be able to leave the city until the highway is fixed.

 

[silkman]

thanks guys....I understand now