Bandwidth Monitor

[edit] Info

Bandwidth Monitor is an Applet for the Avant Window Navigator that provides an auto-scaling bandwidth throughput meter to your AWN dock.

Bandwidth Monitor displays line-graphs for upload and download traffic in the dock, including the text representation of both values in either Kbps/Mbps or KBps/MBps.

[edit] Features

• Device selector (for choosing the device to monitor)
• Per-device statistics
• Toggle throughput unit of measure (Kbps/KBps)
• Multi-Interface - Draws a separate line for each interface included in the "Multi" selection
• Sum Interface - Displays a line graph and throughput statistics as a sum for each

interface included in the "Sum" selection

• Assignment of unique colors to each interface (both upload and download)

[edit] Usage

When you first run the bandwidth monitor applet, it should say "No Device" - This is because it does not try to automatically select an interface. To select an interface, left-click on the applet and a dialog containing a table of the interfaces detected will be display, in addition to 2 virtual interfaces provided by bandwidth monitor. [Note: these virtual interfaces are not setup or installed on your system, they are internal to bandwidth monitor]

Click on the radio button for the device you wish monitor.

[edit] Preferences

Multi Device -

The multi device draws multiple line-graphs for each device which has the "Multi" column checked in the devices pane of the preferences window, and also display the Bps/bps text representation of the combined throughput of all of the interfaces which have the "Multi" column checked in the preferences. Each line will be painted using the color selection in the preferences.

Sum Device -

The Sum device is the sum throughput of all devices which have the "Sum" column checked in the devices pane of the preferences window. It will only draw a line-graph for the total upload, and a line-graph for the total download, using the default color setting of UP: Red, Down: Yellow.

Kbps/kbps checkbox -

This option will change the displayed unit of measure, either in bits, or Bytes.

Draw Background -

If this checkbox is checked, the applet will have a background using the color chosen to the right.

Draw Border -

If this checkbox is checked, the applet will have a border using the color chosen to the right.

Radio buttons: Display Speed Text, Sum and Graph Only

This radio group allows you to control the textual representation of the applet -

• If "Display Speed Text" selected, the Upload and Download speed will be displayed on the applet
• If "Sum" is selected, only the sum of the Upload and Download speed will be displayed on the applet
• If "Graph Only" is selected, no text will be displayed, only the line-graph

Draw 0 bps in graphs -

If this checkbox is checked, the graph will draw a line at the bottom of the graph to represent 0

Minimum Scaling threshold -