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    Mountain Lion (mail) is eating through traffic.

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by Lieto, Sep 13, 2012.

  1. Lieto

    Lieto Notebook Deity

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    Greetings people

    I ve encountered a problem and wondering if anyone can help me to solve it. So we bought new mbp recently and here is a problem: Even though i ve set "automatic updates: off" it eat bandwidth like mad.

    Lets say i am on skype with a friend on the other mbp — conversation will start to become interrupted. If i am playing an online game whenever i open the second mbp my latency will instantly jump from 50 to 200 / 300 / 400 and beyond.

    I think i found a root of a problem — closing mail app seem to solve the issue partially (skype will still lag but not 24/7) but i am wondering what the hell is going on >< Obviously if i close that new mbp it will all become perfectly so i blame the new mbp =)

    p.s. my internet connection is on average 12mbit download 2-3 mbit upload. Thats what speedtest says at least.

    p.p.s. i also think that i ve fully updated everything i could on new mbp so it shouldnt even try to self update.
     
    Lieto, Sep 13, 2012
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  2. masterchef341

    masterchef341 The guy from The Notebook

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    maybe it's actively downloading message data. did you just set up mail?
     
    masterchef341, Sep 13, 2012
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