Dial-Up Networking Monitor shows a graph and statistics of the current Dial-Up Networking connection, including the current throughput and total, maximium and average bytes sent and recieved.
Installation
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Dial-Up Networking Monitor doesn't have an installation program. All that's required is the program itself (DUNMon.exe) and the VB5 Runtime DLL (MSVBVM50.DLL). If the runtime file is not present Dial-Up Networking Monitor will not start. The runtime file can be downloaded from my homepage (URL below) or from Windows95.com (http://www.windows95.com).
Once downloaded, put the runtime file into the Windows\System directory and DUNMon.exe into the directory of your choice. Then, create the usual shortcuts for your Desktop and Start Menu.
Usage
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DunMon will only start logging the throughput on the current Dial-Up connection when it finds an established connection. This means you can, for example, run DunMon prior to firing up your connection and it will not come to life until the connection is made. It will also stop logging when that connection is dropped. This means that the figures are valid for the whole Dial-Up 'session', and the totals, maximum and average figures will make sense. If you fire up another connection, it will come back to life and continue logging.
If you fire up DunMon while a connection is already active, it will start logging at that point - so the totals, maximimum and average will only be since DunMon was started. In this situation, the connection time will show as with a '>' symbol (showing the connection time is greater than the time shown).
Options can be accessed by right-clicking the Graph, as follow:
- Global scale: If a global scale is used, the ranges for Receive and Send share a common scale, i.e they are both scaled to the maximum throughput achieved in either direction. If a global scale isn't used, each range is scaled to it's individual maximum. Using a global scale means, normally, that the send range is hardly visible -- as we tend to download more than upload. Turning off the global scale will allow both ranges to be seen clearly -- but makes the graph slightly misleading.
- Show Recieved/Send: Either range can be removed from the graph. This can be quite handy, as the two ranges are drawn one on top of the other (Received first, then Sent), so you can, for example, hide the Sent range to see the Received one more clearly. Future versions will have the option to specify which range is in the 'foreground'.
Known Issues
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** IMPORTANT **
In order for Dial-Up Networking Monitor to function, the latest version of Winsock MUST be installed -- the version that ships with Windows 95 (Gold or SP1) and Windows 95b/OSR2 cannot be used.
To obtain the updated version, download the Dial-Up Networking v1.2 Update (aka PPTP for Windows 95) from the Microsoft Web site. At the time or writing, this update can be obtained from:
http://www.microsoft.com/ntserver/info/pptp.htm
For more information, see the Dial-Up Networking homepage (URL below).
** IMPORTANT **
In some installations, Dial-Up Networking Monitor requires an updated system DLL. This becomes apparent when you load Dial-Up Monitor and receive the following messages:
"The file MSVBVM50.DLL is linked to the the exported routine OLEAUT32.DLL:421 which is not present"
To fix this, download the following file from my homepage and unzip into your \Windows\System directory:
- Added support for 'skipped' seconds where, for example, a 16-bit application would suspend the timer and DUNMon would only get to update it's graph/data after 'n' seconds (where n is anything greater than 1). In this situation, DUNMon will graph an average of the throughput over the skipped period.
v1.0b3
- Supports Dial-Up Networking v1.2
- Interface changes:
- Tabbed details - splitting graph and statistics onto separate tabs.
- Window is now sizable!
- Averages now shown on graph.
- Averaging of throughput (to 100s of second) produces much smoother graph.
- Homepage moved to www.southdown.co.uk
Credits
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Many thanks to my older brother Andrew Grieve for his feedback on the initial release.
Contact
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The latest version will be available on my homepage, at:
