high bandwidth alerts constantly triggering

[bloodyskullz]

Problem is:

4 vm's running debian 11 and 12 reporting numbers astronomically high for interface triggering high bandwidth alerts
values recieved for bits recieved and sent are in the realm of 1.38 Tbps and 691.55 Gbps

Common info amongst the 4 vms:
all connected through the same proxy
iftop on the interface shows low numbers (KB and MB)
agent versions are the same amongst all 4 (7.2)
vms run on esxi 8.x
vmxnet3 interface
zabbix detecting correct interface speed

Tried:
deleting host
changing the intervals for the item prototypes for net if
changing the trigger completely

Current trigger:

problem

(
avg(/P9 Linux by Zabbix agent active-Chris/net.if.in["{#IFNAME}"],15m) >
({$IF.UTIL.MAX:"{#IFNAME}"}/100) *
(last(/P9 Linux by Zabbix agent active-Chris/vfs.file.contents["/sys/class/net/{#IFNAME}/speed"]) * 1000000)
or
avg(/P9 Linux by Zabbix agent active-Chris/net.if.out["{#IFNAME}"],15m) >
({$IF.UTIL.MAX:"{#IFNAME}"}/100) *
(last(/P9 Linux by Zabbix agent active-Chris/vfs.file.contents["/sys/class/net/{#IFNAME}/speed"]) * 1000000)
)
and
last(/P9 Linux by Zabbix agent active-Chris/vfs.file.contents["/sys/class/net/{#IFNAME}/speed"])>0

recovery

avg(/P9 Linux by Zabbix agent active-Chris/net.if.in["{#IFNAME}"],15m) <
(({$IF.UTIL.MAX:"{#IFNAME}"}-10)/100) *
(last(/P9 Linux by Zabbix agent active-Chris/vfs.file.contents["/sys/class/net/{#IFNAME}/speed"]) * 1000000)
and
avg(/P9 Linux by Zabbix agent active-Chris/net.if.out["{#IFNAME}"],15m) <
(({$IF.UTIL.MAX:"{#IFNAME}"}-10)/100) *
(last(/P9 Linux by Zabbix agent active-Chris/vfs.file.contents["/sys/class/net/{#IFNAME}/speed"]) * 1000000)

I am at a loss here. Logs show nothing and the only other thing i didn't do is remove the agent and install a later version but other vms run the same agent version and no issues.