Is your ISP delivering on its promises of fast Internet connectivity? Use NetPerSec to call its bluff.
How fast is your Internet connection, really? Providers of the various types of connections promise different communication speeds, but are you actually getting what you've been promised? Depending on network traffic, actual speeds can be slower. Cable modems are fast-as long as not too many of your neighbors are sharing the line-but can slow considerably with a heavy load. How do you know if you should switch to DSL?
A new utility, NetPerSec, lets you check your connection speed in real time. NetPerSec monitors all TCP/IP activity to and from the Internet or other networks, and graphs the communication speed. The utility's dynamic tray icon can show send and receive activity with a bar graph or a histogram. For a detailed report, you can open the program's main window to view current and average send and receive speeds in a configurable, graphical display. You can adjust the sampling rate and the amount of data used to compute the average. NetPerSec runs under Microsoft Windows 95, 98, Me, NT 4.0, and 2000. The Visual C/C++ 6.0 source code is provided with the utility for those interested in seeing how the program works.
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