Help Wizard
Step 1
Type in your question below and we'll check to see what answers we can find...
Loading article...
Submitting...
If you couldn't find any answers in the previous step then we need to post your question in the community and wait for someone to respond. You'll be notified when that happens.
Simply add some detail to your question and refine the title if needed, choose the relevant category, then post.
Just quickly...
Before we can post your question we need you to quickly make an account (or sign in if you already have one).
Don't worry - it's quick and painless! Just click below, and once you're logged in we'll bring you right back here and post your question. We'll remember what you've already typed in so you won't have to do it again.
Help categories
Account & Payment
Using Spotify
Listen Everywhere
Hi All,
A bit of a weird one. I've seen at least twice.
I don't understand why and what's triggering it. The Spotify app will start sending A LOT (100Mbits/s) of network traffic, all of those tiny packets (between 54 and 60 bytes). This causes my router to freak out and struggle (a lot).
I've done a wireshark dump this time. All the traffic (we're talking 5.3M packets in a <30sec timeframe) is TCP DUP ACK between my computer and an Akamai IP (probably Spotify CDN).
I had to kill Spotify in the task manager to stop it from DDOSing myself.
I won't share the pcap here for privacy reasons, but I can send it to the Spotify devs if needed.
Best Regards,
Plan
Premium
Country
France
Device
Desktop Computer
Operating System
Windows 10
Suggested posts
Hey there you, Yeah, you! 😁 Welcome - we're glad you joined the Spotify Community! While you here, let's have a fun game and get…
