{"id":1419,"date":"2009-11-27T22:26:59","date_gmt":"2009-11-28T03:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rbach.net\/blog\/?p=1419"},"modified":"2022-12-30T12:34:18","modified_gmt":"2022-12-30T17:34:18","slug":"new-network-monitoring-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/new-network-monitoring-tool\/","title":{"rendered":"New Network Monitoring Tool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itsamples.com\/network-lights.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-110933\" title=\"New Network Monitoring Tool\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/network-lights-icon32.gif?resize=75%2C75&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"New Network Monitoring Tool\" width=\"75\" height=\"75\" \/><\/a>There is now a reason for the three LEDs on your keyboard, you know number lock, caps lock, and scroll lock lights? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itsamples.com\/network-lights.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Network Lights<\/a>, an app by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itsamples.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">IT Samples<\/a> resurrects these dinosaurs from a long-ago era and makes them blink in time with outgoing and incoming network packets on your PC&#8217;s network interface.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itsamples.com\/network-lights.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-110936 size-medium\" title=\"Network Light\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/network-lightsCP.gif?resize=150%2C141&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Network Light\" width=\"150\" height=\"141\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/network-lightsCP.gif?resize=150%2C141&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/network-lightsCP.gif?resize=75%2C71&amp;ssl=1 75w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>To recover some functionality of these throw-backs just download, extract, and run the executable. You will see a new system tray icon to customize program settings. It does not seem to work really well on notebooks but it does apparently work on Win7.<\/p>\n<p>This utility is released as freeware and is provided by the publisher &#8220;AS IS&#8221; without any warranty. Only you will be liable for any special, incidental, consequential, or indirect damages due to loss of data or any other reason. If you encounter a problem while running this utility or you have any suggestions, comments, you can send a message to support (at) itsamples.com.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><a title=\"Ralph Bach\" href=\"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/new-resume\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ralph Bach<\/a>\u00a0has been in IT long enough to know better and has blogged from his\u00a0<a title=\"Bach Seat\" href=\"https:\/\/rbach.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bach Seat<\/a> about IT, careers, and anything else that catches his attention since 2005. 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Email the Bach Seat\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:\/\/bach.seat@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Network Lights makes the number lock caps lock scroll lock LEDs on your keyboard useful by making them blink in time with network packets on your PC&#8217;s NIC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[3216,3237,47,162,3239,2602,15,3236,1301,3238],"class_list":["post-1419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun","tag-3216","tag-cap-lock","tag-fun","tag-keyboard","tag-led","tag-lights","tag-networking","tag-num-lock","tag-packet","tag-scroll-lock"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1419"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119258,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419\/revisions\/119258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}