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Show network activity in the system tray

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by Steve Wiseman on November 8, 2013 · 5 comments

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I got a question from Jim this week:

“Hi Steve. Back in the old days when I was connected to the Internet via a modem, there was this cool network activity indicator down by the time. Do you know of anything like that for my network card?”

Thanks for the great question Jim.

There is a nice utility that can do this. It is called “Network Activity Indicator”

Strange name, I know 🙂

It puts a small icon down in the system tray area, that looks just like that modem icon with the blinking computer screens:

Network Activity Tray

If you right click on it, you can quickly get to your network or firewall settings:

Network Activity Menu

And in addition to that, it has its own network stats page:

Network Activity Stats

Get a copy of it from here:

indicator.zip

Or the ITSamples Website:

http://www.itsamples.com/

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{ 5 comments… read them below or add one }

1 Bob November 13, 2013 at 10:47 pm

Man I miss those days. The screech of the modem was music to my ears. Thanks for the tip steve

2 Jennifer November 14, 2013 at 12:39 pm

Thanks for this tool steve. I love this thing when I am tethered to my phone to get on the Interne. It gives me a picture of how many kb I have used so my bill does not go out of control.

3 Hot Dog November 14, 2013 at 4:07 pm

Any idea if this runs on Windows 2000?

I am stuck with one of those until 2016

4 Steve Wiseman November 14, 2013 at 4:07 pm

Hi Hot Dog,

I doubt it. Most apps these days depend on some type of library that is only in Windows XP or higher

5 Henry January 24, 2014 at 7:28 pm

Alert – on Windows XP not working ….

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