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User Guide
Installation
Once the file has downloaded completely, please open the folder containing
the file you downloaded.
Double-click the installation file you just downloaded to start installing
MING Bandwidth Monitor on your computer.
At the end of installation, you must install the WinPCap 3.1 package.
Bandwidth Monitor Popup Menu
To activate Bandwidth Monitor Popup menu, click right mouse button on Bandwidth Monitor
tray icon. The options available from this menu are:
Open Monitor: Show Bandwidth Monitor main
window.
Window: Show or hide a kind of window.
Internet & LAN: All traffic of this computer.
Internet: Internet traffic of this computer.
LAN: Traffic of this computer on the local network.
INTERNET (All PCs): Internet traffic of all PCs on the LAN.
Hide: Hide Bandwidth Monitor main window.
Statistics: Show statistics dialog box.
Options: Show Options dialog box.
Help: Show help window.
About: About Bandwidth Monitor dialog box.
Exit: Terminate Bandwidth Monitor.
General Options
You can open the Options dialog box by selecting Options from Bandwidth
Monitor pop-up menu.
Windows properties
Always on top: Select this checkbox to make
Bandwidth Monitor appear on top of all other desktop windows.
Show window caption: This checkbox controls whether the window caption of
Bandwidth data window is displayed or not.
Start minimized: When this option is enabled,
Bandwidth Monitor will be started with its window minimized.
Display average values: When this feature is enabled,
Bandwidth Monitor will display an average over a range of
an hour.
Semi-transparent window: Specify the visibility in percents: 10% is barely visible, and 90% is nearly opaque.
Display Mode
Graphical display: Only shows the real- time
graph.
Numeric display: Only shows numeric readout.
Both graphical & numeric: Shows both
Display Units
Kilobytes per Second (kB/s): When this option is selected, numeric readings of
Bandwidth Monitor will show data throughput in units of 1024 bytes per second.
Kilobits per Second (kbps): When this option is selected, numeric readings of
Bandwidth Monitor will show data throughput in units of 1000 bits per second.
Load with Windows
When this option is enabled, Bandwidth Monitor will load itself each time Windows is started.
Graph Options
You can change graph settings in Graph Options tab.
Grid and labels
Show Vertical grid lines: Bandwidth Monitor can display vertical grid lines every 10, 20, 30 seconds or every minute. Specify the frequency (density) of vertical graph lines, or disable them altogether here.
Show maximum graph value: Bandwidth Monitor can show current maximum graph value which shows your connection speed as stated in "Graph range and scaling" below. Disable or enable these features here.
Graph Colors
You can customize the colors of Data Transfer graph. This graph is shown with four different
colors.
Download: When the data is being transferred only from the remote computer to your PC.
Upload: When the data is being transferred only from your PC to the remote computer.
Both: When the data is being transferred in both directions.
Idle: When no data is being transferred.
Graph range and scaling
Connection Type: You can select 'Resize graph automatically', when transfer rate varies
greatly. If your network device is one of the predefined devices in this list, you can select
it and your maximum transfer rate will be adjusted accordingly.
If your device is not present in the supported devices list, then use the manual setup option below.
Custom Connections: Enter the maximum transfer rate of your network device here.
Notifications Options
You can change Notifications settings in
Notifications Options tab.
If notifications are enabled, Bandwidth Monitor will notify the
user when data transfer rate drops below the specified
minimum or exceed the specified maximum. It will play user-specified sound file and
display warning message (if selected).
Statistics
The statistics window show statistics about all
defined filters. You can select one or more filter from
the list and the statistics table will display the total
download and upload amounts measured by the selected
filters during the selected period. You can choose
'Internet & LAN', 'Internet', 'LAN', and 'INTERNET
(all PCs)' statistics. You can also choose hourly, daily,
weekly, monthly and yearly statistics.
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