Confusing Packets Received vs. Packets Sent... Security breach?

[veronica2020]

Hello,

I want to know if the non-logical difference in bytes received and bytes sent is signaling a securty breach. 

I controll my wireless connection very tightly; meaning, I only enable wireless when I am goint to use the internet wirlessly.  If I am not connected through the internet wirelessly, wireless part of router is disabled. 

However, through the router's control panel traffic monitoring interface, I have noticed that the amout of bytes I received vs. the amount of bytes sent doesn't make sense, and I wonder if this discrepancy may actually indicate a security breach of my network. 

For example, I watched video through wireless connection for 3 hours. Before I started the wireless connection, the router's control panel traffic monitoring screen showed no bytes sent no bytes received. After the 3 hours, I got ths stats: 

Received Bytes 101233736

Sent Bytes 3629425895

This is a huge difference for activity which I think is mostly receiveing data packets, and not sending packets elsewhere. 

This difference is more than 2G of data sent out while I was watching video and doing nothing else. How can this be? I get almost 1G of video data, and I sent our 3G of data just watching video? 

Could I get some feedback on why is there such a big difference, and whether this is normal traffic acitivty given the circumsances I described (e.g. watching video content, not doing anything else). 

Thank you

[thetick1234]

Looks normal to me.

From the router much more data is to your PC and much less data is needed to sent from your PC.

[veronica2020]

thetick1234,

You are not making sense, and probably you are not paying attention to the information I provide. 

You state: "From the router much more data is to your PC [received bytes] and much less data is needed to sent from your PC [sent bytes]" If I understandi it correctly, this means more data is supposed to be coming in, less data is supposed to be going out. THIS IS NOT WHAT IS HAPPENING.

I indicated I have MORE DATA being sent OUT, relative to the data SENT IN  while I watch video. 

I repeat the stats:

Received Bytes 101233736 ~ 1G

Sent Bytes 3629425895 ~ 3G

This means, more data is going OUT, less data is coming in, while I am strweaming video, not browsing the internet  nor uploading data to a site. 

[tns2]

You didn't specify which connection you are reading/

e.g. on my router

the network connection reads High send, i.e, the router to devices in the house.

sent 44632588543 received 1675337637

while my broaband (coax) the receive is high.  I.e. the internet

[veronica2020]

I am reading the wireless activity from the router's "Traffic Monitoring" screen. Please view the images below:

AFTER I WACTHED VIDEO THROUGH THE WIRELESS. I DID NOT DO ANY OTHER ACTIVITY THAN STREAMING VIDEO. 

[tns2]

Currently can't read your screen

I was reading from the same screen on my Actiontec version F

Remember the router is SENDING to your devices that Receive the packets.

Traffic Monitoring

Name	Network (Home/Office)	Ethernet	Broadband Connection (Ethernet)	Coax	Broadband Connection (Coax)	Wireless Access Point	WAN PPPoE	WAN PPPoE 2
Status	Connected	Connected	Disabled	Connected	Connected	Disabled	Disabled	Disabled
Network	Network (Home/Office)	Network (Home/Office)	Broadband Connection	Network (Home/Office)	Broadband Connection	Network (Home/Office)	Broadband Connection	Broadband Connection
Underlying Device	Ethernet Wireless Access Point Coax Coax Stats						Broadband Connection (Ethernet)	Broadband Connection (Coax)
Connection Type	Bridge	Hardware Ethernet Switch	Ethernet	Coax	Coax	Wireless 802.11n Access Point	PPPoE	PPPoE
IP Address	192.168.1.1				xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
Received Packets	10328001	9109006		1218992	35061175
Sent Packets	34535600	19451466		22083384	8960077
Received Bytes	1683283321	1459093580		428311595	46279685640
Sent Bytes	44677914576	17813668334		28297455483	1334772265
Receive Errors	0	0		0	0
Receive Drops	0	0		0	0
Time Span	613:42:39	613:42:39		613:42:39	613:42:39