Checking Connection Speed - Re: Plusnet plans for April +

"Flyiñg Ñuñ 2°°6 +" <flyingnun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> pmj wrote:
>> "Flyiñg Ñuñ 2°°6 +" <flyingnun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:43kht6F1o7lm5U1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> pmj wrote:
>> <snip>
>>>> Do you have anything on your PC that Monitors the *actual*
>>>> Download Speed, over a period of time doing actual Downloads,
>>>> like Colin's Pic showed?
>>>
>>> Nope, 'fraid not. Is there a free one available? :)
>>
>> Yep.
>> There are loads.
>>
>> & WinXP even comes with several.
>>
>> Look at the "Networking" Tab in Task manager.
>> Or look at the "Performance Monitor"...
>>
>> Control Panel (or Start Menu)>Administrative Tools>Performance
>>
>> or...
>>
>> Start>Run perfmon [OK]
<snip>
>> If you're looking to see the Speed of your Internet Connection,
>> start looking at the "Network Interface" Counters & then pick
>> things such as "Bytes Received per Second" & "Bytes Sent per Second"
>>
>> Pick the Interface that you want to Monitor (if you have more than
>> one on your Machine) & then Click [OK]
>>
>> You can adjust the Appearance (& Scale etc,) of it & also the
>> Frequency that it updates.
>>
>> You can also use perfmon to Log the stuff to a File, so you can
>> see the Performance over a (longer) period of time.
>>
>> Perfmon has *loads* of Counters, for all sorts of things that
>> happen on the Machine, so it will look a bit Confuzzling at first!
>>
>> But so long as you pick the right Counter, then you can see
>> whatever you want.
>>
>> If you use a 3rd Party Utility, then they basically use the same
>> Info (that WinXP generates), but show it in their own Graphical
>> User Interface.
>>
>> HTH
>
> That's very confusing. I can only find a graphical presentation,
> but would prefer a digital one.

LOL!
:-)

I presumed (wrongly, perhaps?) that a Graphical Output would be more
readable or more use...

But Perfmon also shows the actual Values, as well as the Values
Plotted as a Graph, over Time.

If you want a Record (Listing) of the actual Values, then you can
use the "Performance Logs & Alerts" thingy, to Save them in a File,
so you can then Load them up & look at them. Look at the "Counter
Logs" Section & Add a New Counter

>... Did a google and could only finfd something called Dumeter,
> but it isn't freeware:
> http://www.dumeter.com/scrshots.php

I haven't had any experience of that one.
But I know that there's a Utility called DUNMeter, available
from Magenta Systems...
http://www.magsys.co.uk/dunman/

That was originally designed for DUN (Dial Up Networking) Connections,
but you may well be able to use it with an ADSL (or Cable?) Modem
Connection, or perhaps with a Router.

BTW - If you use a Router, most Routers have (in their Admin Pages)
some Sections that will show you the actual Throughput & some can
Save that Output to a File.

There's also a Utility that PC Mag (ZDNet) did, called NetPerSec
http://pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,1735,00.asp

That shows the Info you want, but I think you now have to Register
with ZDNet to Download most of their Utilities - they have quite
a few useful Utilities.

Anyway...
That NirSoft.net Utility Site I mentioned *also* has a (*Free*!)
Utility that will show you the actual Figures for the Download
Speed etc, of your Internet Connection...

AdapterWatch v1.01 - Display information about your network adapters
http://nirsoft.net/utils/awatch.html

Download that (& UnZip it, then Run it) - it shows a whole load
of Info about *all* of the various Network Interfaces (Adaptors)
on your Machine.

Look on the first Tab (Network Adaptors) & look for the Entries
"Received Data", "Sent Data" & "Calculated Speed of Received Data"
& "Calculated Speed of Sent data".

You can Set it to show the Values in Bytes or KiloBytes.
You can Set the Auto ReFresh Speed (& also whether it Auto ReFreshes
or not)

You can (Select &) Save Items from the Listing & also save an HTML
Report of them (or all Items).

I don't *think* it will Save them as a Plain Text File, but if it
doesn't, you could always Copy & Paste from the HTML Output, into
something like WordPad, or Notepad, so as to Preserve the Columns
(Fields) of Data.

It *appears* as if Saving the Output only saves the *Current* Values?
Rather than Recording/Listing the "Historical" Data (over a period
of time).

HTH

--
pmj


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