{"id":499,"date":"2006-12-13T21:04:09","date_gmt":"2006-12-13T20:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/2006\/12\/12\/network-traffic-bitmeter-to-replace-du-meter\/"},"modified":"2006-12-04T21:12:49","modified_gmt":"2006-12-04T20:12:49","slug":"network-traffic-bitmeter-to-replace-du-meter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/2006\/12\/13\/network-traffic-bitmeter-to-replace-du-meter\/","title":{"rendered":"Network traffic: BitMeter to replace DU-meter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been testing DU-meter as a way to display the network traffic around my computer. It shows a nice little graph to present the network traffic in a very usable\/understandable way like here:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/2006\/12\/dumeter.png\" alt=\"DU meter\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>This graph is updated in real-time which means that color bar allow you to recognize incoming or outgoing traffic, but this is continuously updated according to the real activity of your PC.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the nice look of DU-meter, I was a bit annoyed by the fact that it is shareware and that the end of the trial period was arriving. Actually, I was able to find another program providing the same kind of services in a freeware package. The look is slightly different:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/2006\/12\/BitMeter2.png\" alt=\"BitMeter2\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>However, BitMeter2 have about the same set of features. Both are providing the same semi-transparent window (allowing to see the underlying windows through semi-transparency of the graph). The only thing that could be improved is the size of the BitMeter2 window that seems impossible to change (contrary to Du-Meter).<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, both are recommended to gadget freaks:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/codebox.no-ip.net\/controller?page=bitmeter2\">BitMeter2<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dumeter.com\/\">DU meter<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been testing DU-meter as a way to display the network traffic around my computer. It shows a nice little graph to present the network traffic in a very usable\/understandable way like here: This graph is updated in real-time which means that color bar allow you to recognize incoming or outgoing traffic, but this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,13,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","category-routers-networks","category-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}