My BigPond Cable modem TX & rx lights are flashing madly. Should I be concerned?
These are generally just little “ARP” data packets caused by other PCs on the Internet infected with various viruses like CodeRed. They are not the right type of traffic to be counted as usage and are nothing to worry about if you’re not running an unpatched version of IIS. (Internet Information Services) What happens is PCs infected with the virus send out requests on the Internet for other PCs that it can spread to. These requests hit the ISP’s routers, which in turn try to fulfil the requests and send out search parties for the requested information.
