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Nexon Launcher's constant network traffic

HousePetHousePet
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edited January 2019 in Tech Support
Technically its the nexon_client.exe process, but its got a 2 MB/s upload and download running when it should be idle, as in no games running/updating. You can even close it with the game running and it doesn't care.
To get weirder, it doesn't appear to be uploading or downloading anything. It appears to be talking to itself through the IPv4 loopback.
And that is the limit of my networking knowledge. I don't know what the loopback even does, but this appears to be pointless activity.

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  • NeospectorNeospector
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    edited January 2019
    I've been watching my launcher process and haven't noticed anything close to 2MB/s
    I see occasional spikes of 0.1 MB/s, which is likely loopback to check the network (Chrome does this as well), but nothing higher than that, and not constantly.

    Do you have any screenshots of this behavior, or any additional information?
  • HousePetHousePet
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    edited January 2019
    nexon_client.PNG

    I've blocked out part of the name of the local machine.
    I haven't seen this before, but I also haven't looked. There was just a laggy period where I thought I would see if there was a problem somewhere in the internet trail, so I thought I'd look for the IP address of the server. One the plus side, I didn't detect any packet loss.
    I can try to provide whatever the tech people would like to know. I have no idea what would be relevant in this situation.