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hansrech

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Feb 4, 2018
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I have a MacBookPro with Parallels to run other operating systems. I see on my Activity Monitor heavy network traffic when running Parallels.
I have none Ethernet cable connected to the mac. WiFi is turned off and my router is disconnected. But still there is a lot of traffic from Parallels. Parallels is sending packages every time i go from guest OS to mac OS. How can this happen? Is there some else with the same problem?
 

Samuelsan2001

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Oct 24, 2013
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I have a MacBookPro with Parallels to run other operating systems. I see on my Activity Monitor heavy network traffic when running Parallels.
I have none Ethernet cable connected to the mac. WiFi is turned off and my router is disconnected. But still there is a lot of traffic from Parallels. Parallels is sending packages every time i go from guest OS to mac OS. How can this happen? Is there some else with the same problem?

As far as I can tell paralells does a lot of network verification etc all the time.

See here to turn it off.

http://kb.parallels.com/uk/122937
 

hansrech

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Feb 4, 2018
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Norway
As far as I can tell paralells does a lot of network verification etc all the time.

See here to turn it off.

http://kb.parallels.com/uk/122937

I have used Parallels today in about 5 hours and there was sendt over 38360 packages. This is heavy traffic to verify License verification and some more as described in the link you gave me. Why does Parallels sending this Mbytes of data?
 

The Mercurian

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I have used Parallels today in about 5 hours and there was sendt over 38360 packages. This is heavy traffic to verify License verification and some more as described in the link you gave me. Why does Parallels sending this Mbytes of data?

Maybe its Windows not Parallels ?
 

nouveau_redneck

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Sep 16, 2017
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All that network chatter is concerning. I'm evaluating Parallels vs. Fusion, and this is going to weight in on the decision heavily. Constant network chatter back home is not acceptable to me. It's one of the reasons I'm abandoning Windows.
 
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