Viewing internet speed from system tray???

on XP i used to be able to hover my mouse over the connection icon and view
my internet speed. now all it says in vista is "currently connected to local
and internet".
i would very much like to know the exact speed of my connection (e.g 2meg
etc) how would i go about to do this?

Nonny
Tue Jul 01 09:12:17 PDT 2008

merecoincidence <merecoincidence@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>on XP i used to be able to hover my mouse over the connection icon and view
>my internet speed. now all it says in vista is "currently connected to local
>and internet".
>i would very much like to know the exact speed of my connection (e.g 2meg
>etc) how would i go about to do this?

That indication only showed the "speed" of your NIC, not your actual
speed on the 'net.

Go to a website that actually tests your speed.

Here's a good one:

http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/

Charles
Tue Jul 01 09:10:17 PDT 2008


"merecoincidence" <merecoincidence@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:AAC6B082-2CD8-47C9-A773-EE5320BDD56D@microsoft.com...
> on XP i used to be able to hover my mouse over the connection icon and
> view
> my internet speed. now all it says in vista is "currently connected to
> local
> and internet".
> i would very much like to know the exact speed of my connection (e.g 2meg
> etc) how would i go about to do this?

http://www.pcpitstop.com/internet/Bandwidth.asp

This one is entertaining. http://www.speedtest.net/

p
Tue Jul 01 09:18:04 PDT 2008

Nonny wrote:
> merecoincidence <merecoincidence@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>
>> on XP i used to be able to hover my mouse over the connection icon and view
>> my internet speed. now all it says in vista is "currently connected to local
>> and internet".
>> i would very much like to know the exact speed of my connection (e.g 2meg
>> etc) how would i go about to do this?
>
> That indication only showed the "speed" of your NIC, not your actual
> speed on the 'net.
>
> Go to a website that actually tests your speed.
>
> Here's a good one:
>
> http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/

Here's a better one:

http://www.speedtest.net/

P

Mark
Tue Jul 01 09:54:36 PDT 2008

Rightclick the Taskbar for 'Task Manager', and click the 'Networking' tab.

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"merecoincidence" <merecoincidence@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:AAC6B082-2CD8-47C9-A773-EE5320BDD56D@microsoft.com...
> on XP i used to be able to hover my mouse over the connection icon and
> view
> my internet speed. now all it says in vista is "currently connected to
> local
> and internet".
> i would very much like to know the exact speed of my connection (e.g 2meg
> etc) how would i go about to do this?