There is an icon in the System Tray on the taskbar to indicate that you are connected to a network, however unlike previous Windows versions, there doesn't seem to be a way of seeing if there is any activity on the network connection (sending/receiving packets) in Win7. This is quite frustrating because you don't know if the connection is idle, active, hanging, etc. To get around this I've had to install NetPerSec, just so I can see what is happening on the line.Is there any way of checking network activity in Win7?Thanks.

This might help explain it. http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/w7itpronetworking/thread/55419ba4-b446-4294-8545-ecbf36106d3c

Hi there,There is the Network Utilization gadget, if you want to try that.Alternatively, you can install DU Meter which runs perfectly fine on Windows 7 Beta.Henry[CPU] - Intel Core 2 Quad Q9300 @ 2.50 GHz, 1333 MHz FSB [MOBO] - Gigabyte EP35-DS4 F2 [RAM] - 2 x 2GB (4GB) Transcend DDR2 SDRAM 800MHz [GPU] - Galaxy Geforce 9800GTX [SFX1] - Realtek High Definition Audio (ALC889A) [SFX2] - ASUS XONAR D2 (USB2.0) [HDD1] - 500GB Western Digital 7200RPM / Partition 1 - WinXP Pro SP2 32-bit (Clean install) / Partition 2 - Win7 Beta (Build 7000) 64-bit (Clean install) [HDD2] - 120GB Western Digital 7200RPM [LCD] - 17" Samsung Syncmaster 240N [HID1] - Microsoft Habu (2,000 DPI) [HID2] - Logitech LX 710 Laser Mouse (1,100 DPI) [KBD] - Logitech Wireless Desktop LX 710 Keyboard [MIC] - ASUS Array Microphone