Settings


Colour Theme


To best suit your desktop and taste, the visual appearance of ByteOMeter can be customized by choosing between different colour themes.


Custom Colours


If none of the included colour themes suit your taste, you have the option to create your own. You can change colours for the graphs, the text showing the network speed and finally the background colours. If you choose a different colour for background top and background bottom, the actual background will be a fade between these two colours.

To set your own colours, select custom from the Colour Theme drop-down menu.


Graph Type


Two ways of representing your network traffic are available:


Graph Speed


This slider controls the speed at which the graph scrolls through the main window.

Turning the slider up also means, that more polls are made to the network interface.

 

Speed Unit

 

Display speed in either bits per second or bytes per second.

 

 

Tray Icon

 

The icon sitting in the tray can either be a dynamic arrow icon showing activity by lighting up,

or simply the ByteOMeter program icon.


Scanline Effect


This option creates "scan lines" across the ByteOMeter window, giving the impression of a TV screen up close.


Show Window Caption


Since ByteOMeter is nice to have on the desktop at all times, it is possible to remove the standard titlebar of the window in order to free up as much desktop space as possible.


Start With Windows


Determines whether ByteOMeter starts automatically with Windows. On by default.


Start With Current Windows Dimensions


ByteOMeter's default starting position is in the lower right corner of your screen. If you wish it to be some place else and perhaps in a different size, this is the option. First, place ByteOMeter anywhere on the screen where you want it to start the next time,  then tick this checkbox and click Apply or OK.


Network Interfaces


This is a list of the network interfaces in your computer, which are recognized by ByteOMeter. By putting a tick to left of the name of an interface, the card will be monitored. If the tick is removed, all traffic through the interface will be ignored by ByteOMeter.

 

 

Router Settings

 

This button opens the following window:

 

 

If you have an SNMP enabled router, ByteOMeter can monitor it just like the network cards on your computer. If ByteOMeter cannot detect your router maybe its SNMP interface is simply disabled. You can typically check this in the routers web interface (see your router manual for details).

After inputting the router IP you can click "Detect Router". ByteOMeter will then send an SNMP request to the IP and if a router answers you will be asked if ByteOMeter should try and detect the router interface connected to the internet. A router typically has more than one interface dealing with different kinds of traffic. Therefore, in order to detect

the correct interface, you will be asked to generate some internet traffic. This can be done by opening up a few web pages or downloading a file. When 100 KB has been transferred, ByteOMeter will most likely be able to determine the correct interface and select this for you in the "Router Interfaces" list. If the selected interface should turn out to be wrong, you can always manuallly change it to another one.

The router will be polled for SNMP information every 1 second per default. This interval can be changed if the router is not able to accomodate requests so frequently, but modern routers will mostly be fine with the default interval.


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