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Win2k net Icon: packets to bytes?

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BatmanNate

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That little icon in the system tray that displays for each network connection, how do you change it's readout of data transfer from packets to bytes? Thanks!
 
I've asked that question here about 3 times in the past year. Nobody seems to know. I have a feeling it's a driver thing. Actually I have no idea. I'd like to get packets converted to bytes on my laptop as well. Sheesh. I hope you get an answer because I want to know too!
 
yeah, I'm not sure either, same with me. 1 nic in bytes the other in packets. The very strange thing is I am not even sure of the accuracy of the method the drivers use to count bytes/packets. With my old cable modem my nic showed somewhat reasonable counts. Now with my new cable modem, the download count is always 0, while the upload count seems way off, but it is a changing number. I find this very annoying because I can't even get an idea of how much network activity has been occuring.
 
I've not found a quick option. But you can monitor what you want thru the performance monitors. They are very configurable, and can be saved as an real-time html page.
 
There isn't a way to change it from Packets to Bits. It is part of the OS, and not the driver. If you really want to "see" how much data is going through your connection, install the Network Monitor driver and use Performance Monitor. Or you can get the AnalogX NetStat Live program from AnalogX.
 
Are you sure both of the connections are NICs? Modems show up as bytes because they don't send normal packets.
 
No, they are both NIC's. One is a Linksys 10/100 PCI and the other is a Realtek 10b PCI. The realtek is doing the packets, and it's beggining to become aggravating. My server uses both 3com's, and they both display in bytes as well.
 
Well, tell ya what....set your MTU size to 64Bytes (minimum ethernet packet size) then take the packet count, multiply by 64 and you got bytes (there's some minor overhead...of no consequence). That's the only way. Ethernet packets can vary in size from 64bytes to 1518bytes (or 1516 depending on your religion)...so ten packets could be 640 bytes, or 1,518,00 bytes.

If you set your machine so that the ONLY packet size you send & receive is 64Byte packets, then the math gets easy.

JFC.....I though O/C stood for "OverClocking."

Just connect, enjoy the surf, ignore the bits/bytes/packet stuff...

FWIW

Scott
 
Wierd....on one bootup, the other net connection somehow started displaying in packets also. I then rebooted, and it was in bytes again. This is driving me nuts. I don't want to mess with my packet size either.
 
On the same computer, my netgear 310 shows up with bytes. However, when I switch it to an intel pro management, it goes to packets. When I switch back to the netgear 310, it goes back to bytes.

I think it has to do with the type of driver that w2k installs for the network card. Some cards require a driver that will show up as packets and some as bytes.

That's my latest theory anyways.
 
If possible, upload the .inf file that comes with each card; the intel and the netgear 310. If there is a difference, it should/would/could be in just the .inf
 
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