{"id":1205,"date":"2020-06-12T12:55:26","date_gmt":"2020-06-12T09:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.windowslivegadgets.com\/gallery\/?p=1205"},"modified":"2025-07-25T15:55:53","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T12:55:53","slug":"get-the-free-net-speed-gadget-to-monitor-download-and-upload-speeds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.windowslivegadgets.com\/gallery\/1205\/get-the-free-net-speed-gadget-to-monitor-download-and-upload-speeds\/","title":{"rendered":"Net Speed gadget monitors download and upload speeds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.windowslivegadgets.com\/gallery\/1205\/get-the-free-net-speed-gadget-to-monitor-download-and-upload-speeds\/\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/img\/NetSpeed.jpg\" style=\"border:none;margin:22px;float:left;\"><\/a>Net Speed is a free, safe and clean gadget that will let you see your upload and download speeds. <\/p>\n<p>The advantage of this gadget is that it won&#8217;t show a graph but the exact download and upload values at a refresh rate you can define (the default is 1 second).<\/p>\n<p>In the Settings of Net Speed select your network interface, select the refresh rate you prefer, and you are ready to rock!<\/p>\n<p>You don&#8217;t need to be an expert. Usually you have 3 or 4 choices for selecting your network interface. If you don&#8217;t see any speed at all (assuming you download or upload something at the time, off course), just select the second option, and go on until you find your working interface.<\/p>\n<p>With this gadget you will be able to see the traffic of your PC and the exact speeds, even if a program won&#8217;t provide connection details. You will be able, e.g., to monitor Windows Updates, that start on the background without even letting you know they started, nor giving any speed information.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.windowslivegadgets.com\/gadgets\/NetSpeed.gadget.zip\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Run the .gadget file to start using Net Speed immediately, or save it to your disk to install later.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Net Speed is a free, safe and clean gadget that will let you see your upload and download speeds. The advantage of this gadget is that it won&#8217;t show a graph but the exact download and upload values at a refresh rate you can define (the default is 1 second). In the Settings of Net\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.windowslivegadgets.com\/gallery\/1205\/get-the-free-net-speed-gadget-to-monitor-download-and-upload-speeds\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[504],"class_list":["post-1205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-system-utilities","tag-network"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.windowslivegadgets.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.windowslivegadgets.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.windowslivegadgets.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.windowslivegadgets.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.windowslivegadgets.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.windowslivegadgets.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.windowslivegadgets.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.windowslivegadgets.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.windowslivegadgets.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}