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I know there is programs that can tell you your download and upload speed in kb/s but I've never seen or heard of one that tells for each program and ports.

Just wondering is there a reason why you need this?
 
You can easily see what ports have been opened and what remote IPs/domains have been contacted with the "netstat -a" command. Start out with no programs running and you shouldn't have anything in the "foreign address" column (assuming it's been a good 15 minutes since you last did anything online or had any Net-using applications running). Then run the program you're testing and see what shows up when you run the command.

The output can be confusing though, because by default there's several ports that are listed even though they're not really doing anything. You'll want to read up on the output, and you can find out exactly what each of the normal listening ports does if you want.

You can also just use any network monitoring tool (I like netmeter) to see what your data transfer rate is, and if you only have the one program running, then you know how much bandwidth that program is using.

I'm sure there are also more detailed monitoring tools of course that can do things like keeping a log of what ports are opened on your machine and what remote sites are contacted. Certainly if a firewall can be set up to only allow certain programs to make connections to the Internet, then other utilities can be made to monitor what programs make what connections (in fact some firewalls probably can log it). Netstat and a network bandwidth monitor are easy and quick for informal tests though.
 
And, in addition, here are some good tips for monitoring resource usage in XP:

Check

And see "Active Ports" here for another option:

Ports
 
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