OT: Apple *really* cares

I see that Apple is maintaining four TCP connections through my wireless router to my iPad, which has been doing nothing but charge over the last 48 hours.

What could they possibly need those connections for?

Winston Are you sure they are yours?

Tom

The connections? Yup.

• The local IP address corresponds to that of the iPad.
• I turned the iPad off and the connections disappeared.

Any idea why they would need that kind of bandwidth?

--Winston

Because they aren't smart enough to find the right newsgroup to post a computer related question to.

Michael

The connections? Yup.

• The local IP address corresponds to that of the iPad.
• I turned the iPad off and the connections disappeared.

Any idea why they would need that kind of bandwidth? Winston

I'm not an Apple fan, I have no idea.

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Thanks anyway, Tom.

--Winston

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Thanks anyway, Tom.

Winston

There is no need to thank me, I did nothing for you. Michael would rather we discussed this on a computer group. Normally I would completely agree and have previously adhered to on topic posts. Since most of the groups that I use are nearly dead, I have allowed myself some OT posts.

Regards, Tom

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You carefully considered my question and I am sure you would have given me some insight if you could have.

That is valuable and I appreciate your time.

I am sure Michael has many requirements. :) :)

The group charter: sci.electronics.basics Elementary questions about electronics.

"A forum for discussion of electronics where there is no such thing as a stupid question. Beginners questions. Discussion of electronics education. Requests for other sources of information."

I couldn't find a newsgroup like 'sci.computers.basics' or 'alt.apple.noob'. 'comp.mobile.apple.iPad' isn't available from my USENET provider and 'comp.sys.apple' seemed too advanced for such a simple question, so I figured 'sci.electronics.basics' was as close as I was likely to get.

My apologies to you and the other polite sci.electronics.basics participants if my 'beginner' question was too far off-topic.

I will not tempt you with my many opinions on guns, politics and religion then. :)

--Winston

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You carefully considered my question and I am sure you would have given me some insight if you could have.

That is valuable and I appreciate your time.

I am sure Michael has many requirements. :) :)

The group charter: sci.electronics.basics Elementary questions about electronics.

"A forum for discussion of electronics where there is no such thing as a stupid question. Beginners questions. Discussion of electronics education. Requests for other sources of information."

I couldn't find a newsgroup like 'sci.computers.basics' or 'alt.apple.noob'. 'comp.mobile.apple.iPad' isn't available from my USENET provider and 'comp.sys.apple' seemed too advanced for such a simple question, so I figured 'sci.electronics.basics' was as close as I was likely to get.

My apologies to you and the other polite sci.electronics.basics participants if my 'beginner' question was too far off-topic.

I will not tempt you with my many opinions on guns, politics and religion then. :)

Winston

You may temp me with those topics but I will not respond here. alt.rec.guns or alt.guns for gun related topics. Politics and religion I stay away usually.

Tom

It has to ping occasionally to keep its lease on the IP address (it's a DHCP timeout thing); I don't know why 'four TCP connections' are involved, usually one IP address means one connection. Could you be seeing e-mail status updates, or NNTP time signals, as separate connections?

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And that is as it should be.

--Winston

Certainly could be. I dunno.

All I know is that after eMailed abuse.apple.com asking for an explanation, two connections became four connections. Weird.

Thanks!

--Winston

Yes. You can run more than one browser, which is http, you can open an ftp connection, as you've noted nntp, ping, and so on - they're all called "connections;" kind of like "ports."

Hope This Helps! Rich