[X-Unix] Dial-up connection speed?

[Nick Scalise]

On Thursday, October 21, 2004, at 10:10AM, William Enestvedt <William.Enestvedt at jwu.edu> wrote:

>Good morning, all+ADs-
>   Is there a way to display the connection speed of an active modem
>connection under OS X, other than leaving the +ACI-Internet Connect+ACI- control
>panel open?
>   I have convinced my father-in-law to (finally) switch from OS 9 to OS X,
>and he misses the way it showed the connection speed in the menu bar. +AFs-I
>must confess that I don't remember this.+AF0-
>   I couldn't find a haxie or freeware widget to do this, but I thought that
>Geek Tool could probably be used, if only I could find the right number.
>(Can +AGA-netstat+AGA- be coerced into giving me the right numbers?)
>   So can anyone suggest where I might find existing software that does
>this, or a source for this number in OS X that I can find a way to display
>myself?

MenuMeters (Freeware):
<http://www.ragingmenace.com/software/menumeters/>

NetMonitor (Shareware):
<http://homepage.mac.com/rominar/net.html>

Good luck,
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Nick Scalise
nickscalise at mac.com