Paranoia Bandwidth Monitoring? :)

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Hi! I downloaded DU Meter as recommended by Virgin Media to monitor my bandwidth usage during peak times.

I don't know if this is right or not but DU meter shows that my connection is constantly uploading and downloading but only at very low speeds. I've been monitoring it since 4pm and the network traffic is reported as between 1 - 5 Kilobytes a sec upload + Download.

In the space of about 5 hours there's been a total of 100mb in traffic tracked by DU Meter.

I have checked my firwall and it appears to be working correctly. I've also done a scan for trojans, spyware and viruses. Nothing has been found.

My question is, is it normal for there to be traffic like this?

Is what DU meter picks up just background stuff?