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IPSPEED 1.02 - a small PM-application to measure the speed of
your TCP/IP connection.
Copyright (c) Michael Bock 1996-98
All rights reserved
Important notice
The author disclaims all warranties as to this software, whether
expressed or implied, including without limitation any implied warranties
of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, functionality,
data integrity or protection, in so far as permitted by applicable
legislation.
All trademarks are property of their respective owners and appear for
identification purposes only.
License agreement
IPSpeed is "freeware". The program may be used without charges, as long it
is not modified in any way. For redistribution please use the original
archive which includes this notice.
Requirements
OS/2 with TCP/IP installed.
Use IPSPEED.EXE for TCP/IP 3.0 and later, which is included in Warp Connect
and probably all newer versions of OS/2.
Use IPSPEED2.EXE for previous versions of OS/2.
Installation
Simply copy the required EXE (see above) to a directory of your choice.
If you like to have a program object for IP Speed on your desktop,
consult your OS/2 documentation.
Short description
IPSpeed measures the speed of your tcp/ip interfaces. Every interface
(network, ppp or others) can be selected for measuring. The only exception
is the local loopback interface 'lo'.
The following values are displayed for both directions of data-flow:
- total bytes transferred through this interface
- average bytes per seconds transferred (in the last three seconds)
- maximum average bytes per seconds
A small diagram shows the average bytes per seconds for the last 35
seconds. The values and the diagram are updated every second.
IPSpeed includes a popup menu (click with mouse button 2 anywhere on the
window surface). The popup menu includes the following items:
- Reset All : resets all values for the current interface to zero
- Reset Max : resets the "max cps"-values to zero
- Reset Total : reset the "total bytes"-values to zero
- View All : show all information
- View Graph : show graph only
- View Total : show total only
- View Estimated : show estimated only
- View Max : show max only
- Smoothed curve : smoothes curve in graph
- Always on top : the IPSpeed window will float to the top of your display
each time new values are displayed
- Titlebar : show or hide the titlebar of the IPSpeed window
- Set default interface : the current interface will be automatically
selected the next time IPSpeed is started
- About : what do you think? (:-)
- Quit : what do you think? (:-)
You can specify the interface on the command line (something like
'IPSPEED sl0'). The first interface containing the given string in it∩s
name will be selected automatically. This even works for interfaces
not available at startup time. The interface will be selected when
it appears.
Notes:
- using the command line disables the 'Set default interface' method in
the popup menu.
- the window position will be stored using the name specified on the
command line, so IPSpeed remembers different window positions for
different interfaces. All other settings are stored globally!
Some other tips:
The IPSpeed window can be dragged directly with mouse buttons 1 or 2 on
the window surface (this may be useful, if the titlebar is hidden).
If the default interface does not exist during startup of IPSpeed, it will
be selected automatically when it appears.
Double-clicking on a subwindow sets view mode (see above).
Double-clicking on any other region of the main window shows/hides
titlebar.
Future plans
- A more consistent solution for multiple interfaces
- Measurement of remote interfaces via SNMP
- Reimplementation to make source code distributable ;-)
The author
The author can be reached under the following mail addresses
Internet: bock@rbg.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de
CompuServe: 100447,1335
Fidonet: 2:2464/266
Note: mail addresses are subject to change over the years