ethernet constantly receiving 8-16 kbps

[ehhhhhj]

basically just wanted to know if its that its doing that from start up without opening anything

[David H. Lipman]

What are the results for your Upload and Download speeds using the following ?

• http://www.speedtest.net/
• http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/

 

Edited February 27, 2021 by David H. Lipman
Edited for content, clarity, spelling and grammar

[ehhhhhj]

330 up and down

[David H. Lipman]

What you are seeing is background chatter.  The OS communicates meta data back to Microsoft and some background processes like SSDP, STP, Shared Music Daemon, etc.  Or third party installed applications "phoning home".  This background communication isn't much data but a lot of different chunks of data.   If you have a symmetrical ¹330Mb/s trunk then this accounts for the less than 10Kb/s of background communication you see.

To know more would be to load Wireshark and see exactly and specifically what constitutes the background traffic.

EDIT:

Here is a sample view of a quiescent Win7 platform running Wireshark to see background communications...

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1.  I'll assume Mb/s vs. Kb/s as no specific metric was provided.

Edited February 27, 2021 by David H. Lipman

[ehhhhhj]

yes mbps but in general its fairly normal behavior? 

[David H. Lipman]

Yes.  Normal background OS "chatter."

It will also depend on what third party software you install.  Many will run stubs upon startup and they may have their own level of background "chatter."