Modem light keeps blinking on?

**CatScam** · September 10th, 2003, 11:57 AM

I have a Lucent 56k win-modem & I’ve been noticing lately the little modem in the system
tray keeps coming on every 5 to 10 seconds. I have already run a virus checker & Spy-bot to
check for spy-ware, but it keeps doing it. This happens on every site I go to even Google,
I don’t remember it doing this before. Other then that little annoyance the modem works great.
Anyone know if this is normal & I may have just never noticed it?

**peterwilkes** · September 10th, 2003, 12:23 PM

This is almost certianly normal. Especailly since you have done all the checks.

My Cable modem is connected to a router 24/7 and happily chats away to each other even when the computer is not switched on!

**Hey-Todd** · September 10th, 2003, 01:00 PM

It's probably just the "hearbeat" that keeps the connection alive. ISP's will usually kill the connection if they don't get a return pulse from the modem from time to time.

Todd

**Hey-Todd** · September 10th, 2003, 01:10 PM

Sorry... double post!

**cracked** · September 10th, 2003, 01:14 PM

do u mean the little double computer screen icon in the systray? if so, then all that means is that data is being transferred. like peter said, perfectly normal

drew