I have the unfortunate privilege of living in a rural area without internet connection. It isn't as bad as it sounds, I usually just bring what I need home and work there, and if I have to I use dialup.
However, as slow as dialup is, I need to keep things from uselessly using up what little bandwidth I have. For example, even though I have set Firefox to not check for updates, I suspect that it is "calling home" and using up bandwidth, even when I'm just visiting some innocuous like the Google home page.
So how can I tell what program is sending traffic over the internet? The activity monitor doesn't really do that as far as I can tell (messages sent and received are always dominated by local stuff).
Any advice appreciated.
>>>bill<<<
However, as slow as dialup is, I need to keep things from uselessly using up what little bandwidth I have. For example, even though I have set Firefox to not check for updates, I suspect that it is "calling home" and using up bandwidth, even when I'm just visiting some innocuous like the Google home page.
So how can I tell what program is sending traffic over the internet? The activity monitor doesn't really do that as far as I can tell (messages sent and received are always dominated by local stuff).
Any advice appreciated.
>>>bill<<<
