The &xcenter; "IP Monitor" widget shows you a graph of your current network interface throughput. This might be useful to track your bandwidth if you are connected to a &link_tcpip; network such as the &link_internet;, especially if you would like to learn about the speed of your dial-up connection and the servers you are connected to.

Its display is quite similar to the "Pulse" widget. You will see two graphs: one for incoming IP traffic (by default, in green) and one for outgoing traffic (by default, in red).

If you open the widget's pop-up menu, you can select which network interface will be displayed by selecting it from the "Source" submenu. If you would like to monitor the traffic that goes through your dial-up modem, you should select an entry that is called "Serial interface ppp0" (or similar). Note that the names that are displayed are reported by the TCP/IP subsystem of &os2; and the widget has no influence on them.

Note also that you can drag and drop fonts and colors onto the widget. You can also change the colors by selecting "Properties" from the widget's pop-up menu. Besides, the widget is sizeable.