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In article <siegman-E4BA74.10091903082008@news.stanford.edu>,
 AES <siegman@stanford.edu> wrote:

> I just started up NT-NewsWatcher on my Airport+DSL-connected MacBook a 
> few moments ago, noticed that the "?"'s in front of the 26 groups in my 
> Subscribed Groups window were only very slowly turning into numbers of 
> new messages, but also observed that the activity light on my DSL modem 
> was flashing like mad. 
> 
> So, I started up Activity Monitor (which I don't normally keep running), 
> and selected the Network Tab.  The  text at the bottom of AM's window is 
> showing "Data Received: 93 MB" and climbing steadily; the green line in 
> the little window to the right of that is pegged at the top of the 
> window and the text says "Data received/sec" is about 40 kB (which might 
> be about right for our very marginal DSL connection).
> 
> So, how can I tell _where_ this data is going on my HD, or who's sending 
> it to me?
> 
> And, I started up Activity Monitor cold, and the 93+ MB can't possibly 
> have come in since I started it.  From what starting point does Activity 
> Monitor measure Data Received? -- and does it somehow keep track even 
> when it's not Open?
> 
> [In the time it took to compose this msg, the Data Received has climbed 
> to 120 MB . .. ]

Try this in a terminal window:

     netstat -a | grep ESTABLISHED

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