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Article #61Re: Network cards, packets or bytes?
From: Halfton
Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2001 01:13
Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2001 01:13
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a hah, windows 2000 link icon in tool tray is what your talking about !
My preference is to double click it, click on Properties and Uncheck the
show Icon box, I never did trust the M$ DUN icon either :-)
HTH
Joe
"Michael" <flatbmx1@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:3b16b98a@news.iprimus.com.au...
> Thanks for the link, I'm giving it a go now, but I'm more interested in
> being able to see bytes instead of packets in the windows network status
> area. The main aim is to not have to use any seperate programs to monitor
> this as I am familier with using a dial up modem to connect to the net, it
> would seem logical to look at lan traffic the same way.
> Regards, Michael
> "Halfton" <halfton@pickup.com> wrote in message
> news:IvrR6.583$2G.104612@paloalto-snr1.gtei.net...
> > if you just want to monitor traffic in/out of your machine by bit's or
> > byte's, try this
> > http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/network/nsl.htm
> > its small and free :-)
> >
> > HTH
> > Joe
> >
> > "Michael" <flatbmx1@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> > news:3b15b5fa@news.iprimus.com.au...
> > > Is there a way to change whether your network card displays packets or
> > bytes
> > > when you look at it's properties/status? My flatmate has some sort of
> > > d-link card that has always displayed in bytes ever since he got it, I
> > have
> > > run a few different network cards (including a different d-link one)
and
> > am
> > > currently running an Intel PRO/100+ PCI Adapter that currently
displays
> > all
> > > network trafic in packets, which isn't very useful to me.
> > >
> > > Does anyone know how to change this? and make it display bytes?
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance
> > > Sincerly, Michael
> > >
> > > PS sorry for the cross posting
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>
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