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Johnny Fist
11-12-2003, 10:47 PM
Yeah, so I recently made the jump to boadband. I had XP display the little dual monitor icon in the system tray and it would do a lovely job of showing my bandwidth usage. Now that I've installed a router to keep two computers online at the same time it shows me packets. I don't want packets, I want megabytes.

How do I make it so it shows me the amount of bandwidth used in megabytes instead of packets?

Thanks.
BipolarBill
11-13-2003, 12:16 AM
Sorry - that's what you get for free.
Johnny Fist
11-13-2003, 06:05 PM
What are you talking about?
BipolarBill
11-13-2003, 06:12 PM
This.
Midknyte
11-13-2003, 06:14 PM
That's weird, 'cause mines says bytes. I'm running xp pro.
Johnny Fist
11-13-2003, 06:39 PM
I guess I meant bytes instead of megabytes. Either way, I'd rather have that then packets. The question remains as to how to get it to display that.
Ol'Tunzafun
11-14-2003, 02:21 AM
It must come with the eye candy.
TiGgErDbC
11-14-2003, 03:19 AM
hmmm i have xp home and its packets as well.. must be one of those xp pro "goodies" lol thats the only one i know of though :P
Johnny Fist
11-14-2003, 04:17 AM
Oh well, I guess I'll just have to live with it.
fishybawb
11-14-2003, 06:27 AM
Whether packets or bytes are shown is dependent on your NIC driver AFAIK. Might be worth checking if there are any newer versions. Failing that, you could try something like DU-Meter (http://www.dumeter.com/).
Johnny Fist
11-14-2003, 06:55 PM
Thanks fishy, that was a big help.