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Archives => 2009 => Topic started by: kbeartx on April 14, 2009, 02:34:31 PM

Title: App/Utility to monitor Internet activity
Post by: kbeartx on April 14, 2009, 02:34:31 PM

I am looking for a Freeware/Shareware program that will allow me to view a summary of all outgoing/incoming 'net traffic involving my Mac - I imagine a window displaying the programs currently running that are communicating w/ internet servers and status info about the various 'interactions' taking place.

For example, this is the kind of data I'm interested in seeing:

=====================================================================
Firefox
          Techsurvivors.net
                  Downloading requested page, 734Kb at 24.4 Kb/sec, est. 11 sec. to completion
         Yahoo.com
                  Waiting for server, 17 sec since page request acknowledged

Mail
        Google.com
                   Uploading [1] messages, 46% of 1,045 Kb, est. 47 sec to completion  
        Grandecomm.net
                   Downloading [3] messages, 28% of 8134Kb, est. 111 sec to completion

World of Warcraft
         Blizzard.com
                    Downloading Update 3.1.1.6.406b21, 22Mb of 742Mb at 663 Kbps, est. 6 hrs, 22 min to completion
====================================================================

I checked at Pure-Mac and did not find anything suitable before I ran out of attention span/patience; I've had similar experiences wading through the lists of offerings at Apple.com.

Anybunny know of something that will provide what I want?

TIA,

KB
 

Title: App/Utility to monitor Internet activity
Post by: Mayo on April 14, 2009, 03:13:11 PM

The closest thing that I could find is LittleSnitch if you activate its Network Monitor. But as far as I can tell it doesn't show how much time it took to accomplish a network task.  I recall seeing something similar to what you describe but I cannot remember the context...

Title: App/Utility to monitor Internet activity
Post by: kbeartx on April 21, 2009, 05:53:43 PM

Title: App/Utility to monitor Internet activity
Post by: Xairbusdriver on April 21, 2009, 06:16:52 PM

Those times are probably in one of the 'network' logs.

Title: App/Utility to monitor Internet activity
Post by: Mayo on May 02, 2009, 10:10:25 PM

Kbear, how about ProteMac Meter? It's $30 but after a quick look at what it does I think that it might meet your requirements...

Title: App/Utility to monitor Internet activity
Post by: kbeartx on May 03, 2009, 10:31:47 PM

Mayo, thanks for that suggestion.  I d/l'd limited demos of their various apps/utilities, and played around with Meter.  It seemed to show some of the types of info I'd like to see, but not in a useful display/format.

Title: App/Utility to monitor Internet activity
Post by: Mayo on May 04, 2009, 11:44:18 AM

I tried to install the app to test it and got a corrupted installation message... It was a hassle to uninstall it; I wasted around thirty minutes total.

I'm going to pass on it...