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    This issue's utility, netpersec, lets you check your CONNECTION SPEED in real time. It monitors all TCP / IP activity to and from the Internet or other networks. The program's configurable graphical display will show you current and average speeds.

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    This issue's utility, netpersec, lets you check your CONNECTION SPEED in real time. It monitors all TCP / IP activity to and from the Internet or other networks. The program's configurable graphical display will show you current and average speeds.

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    This issue's utility, netpersec, lets you check your CONNECTION SPEED in real time. It monitors all TCP / IP activity to and from the Internet or other networks. The program's configurable graphical display will show you current and average speeds.

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    MARCH TUTOR ■

    CONNECTION SPEED

    connection
    speed
    How fast is your Internet connection really? With NetPerSec you can find out. Check your
    connection speed in real time and see how close you come to the claim.

    i ff e rent types of connections and from the Internet or other networks and www.pcmag.com/utilities. A link to down-

    D p romise diff e rent communica-


    tion speeds, but do these pro-
    jections represent what you’re
    actually getting? Network traffic often
    then graphs the communication speed. The
    program’s dynamic tray icon shows send
    and receive activities with a bar graph or a
    histogram. To see more details, open the
    load the utility and its source code can
    also be found there.

    makes actual speeds slower than the utility’s main window, and a configurable,
    promised rates. Cable modems are fast, as graphical display will show you current
    long as just a few of your neighbours are and average send and receive speeds.
    sharing the line. Should you switch to DSL? NetPerSec runs under Microsoft Wi n-
    This issue’s utility, NetPerSec, lets you dows 95, 98, Me, NT 4.0 and 2000. An arti- Figure 3: NetPerSec’s tray icon (shown on the far right,
    next to the clock) dynamically displays network send
    check your connection speed in real time. cle about how to use NetPerSec and how and receive activities in either a histogram or a bar chart.
    NetPerSec monitors all TCP/IP activity to i t w a s w r i t t e n is av a i la b le a t

    Figure 1: The Graph page gives detailed information Figure 2: Specify the colours to be used in NetPerSec’s Figure 4: The Options page lets you control how
    about your send and receive speeds. You can choose graphical icon and in the main dialog’s graphs using the often NetPerSec samples the connection speed and
    between bar graphs and line graphs, and you can Display dialog. The background colours for the main dia- how much data the program uses for computing the
    change the scale used in graphing the data. log graphs and the icon graphs can be changed as well. average.

    92 March 2001 www.DITnet.co.ae ■ www.PCmag-mideast.com

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