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How to Install NetSpeed Traffic Monitoring Applet

Now, if you want to monitor your network interface from GNOME X, here’s another linux network interface usage and monitoring tool you can use and install.

Netspeed is a little GNOME-applet that shows how much traffic is currently passing thru on your specified network devices. 

NetSpeed monitoring applet can show current network incoming and outgoing traffic from your selected interface. Since netspeed is X-based traffic monitoring tool, these current traffic and interface statistics can be displayed via informative line graph. Netspeed also shows these incoming and outgoing traffic from your taskbar. 

NetSpeed Installation

# yum -y install gnome-applet-netspeed

NetSpeed Post Installation From X
1. Right click into your taskbar and select Add to Panel
2. Scroll down from the Panel menu and select Network Monitor by NetSpeed. There are currently two of them, the other one is the default application from GNOME.

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