{"id":152,"date":"2008-06-03T14:11:53","date_gmt":"2008-06-03T11:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/?p=152"},"modified":"2008-06-03T14:15:15","modified_gmt":"2008-06-03T11:15:15","slug":"du-meter-vs-net-meter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/2008\/06\/03\/du-meter-vs-net-meter\/","title":{"rendered":"DU Meter vs. Net Meter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dumeter.com\/scrshots.php\" title=\"DU Meter screenshots\" class=\"imagelink\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-uploads\/2008\/06\/du-meter-screenshot.gif\" alt=\"DU Meter screenshot\" \/><\/a>Some time ago I was using and I was pretty excited about a small app, called <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dumeter.com\/\">DU Meter<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>What it did, exactly?<\/p>\n<p>Well, it just monitored my Internet bandwidth (current speeds of download\/upload).<\/p>\n<p>These were the times of good ol&#8217; dial-up connections (33.6 kbps or, when you were lucky, 48-56 kbps).<\/p>\n<p>Now these times are long gone, and speed is measured in Mbps, not in kbps&#8230; :-)<\/p>\n<p>But DU Meter is still there, and <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hageltech.com\/\">Hagel Tech<\/a><\/em> even released a brand-new version &#8211; <strong>4.0<\/strong>:)<\/p>\n<p>You can download it here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dumeter.com\/download.php\">http:\/\/www.dumeter.com\/download.php<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a trial, which will work for 30 days; after that, you can either stop using it, or buy a single license for USD 24.95.<\/p>\n<p>Still, you should be aware, that a similar app exists now, and it is called <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.metal-machine.de\/readerror\/\">Net Meter<\/a><\/strong> (current version is 1.1).<\/p>\n<p>It does exactly the same things as DU Meter, but it&#8217;s freeware (you can make a small donation, though, if you like the program).<\/p>\n<p>I tested both apps. Net Meter, to be frank, simply copied most of DU Meter&#8217;s interface look &#038; feel (which is a good thing, if you are accustomed to DU Meter, but do not want to pay 25 dollars to buy it), and, apart from that, I do not see any major differences between them.<\/p>\n<p>Which one to use, you may decide for yourself; still, it&#8217;s nice to know you have more than one option! :-)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some time ago I was using and I was pretty excited about a small app, called DU Meter. What it did, exactly? Well, it just monitored my Internet bandwidth (current speeds of download\/upload). These were the times of good ol&#8217; dial-up connections (33.6 kbps or, when you were lucky, 48-56 kbps). Now these times are&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}