private static void ShowNetworkTraffic()
{
PerformanceCounterCategory performanceCounterCategory = new PerformanceCounterCategory("Network Interface");
string instance = performanceCounterCategory.GetInstanceNames()[0]; // 1st NIC !
PerformanceCounter performanceCounterSent = new PerformanceCounter("Network Interface", "Bytes Sent/sec", instance);
PerformanceCounter performanceCounterReceived = new PerformanceCounter("Network Interface", "Bytes Received/sec", instance);
for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++)
{
Console.WriteLine("bytes sent: {0}k\tbytes received: {1}k", performanceCounterSent.NextValue() / 1024, performanceCounterReceived.NextValue() / 1024);
Thread.Sleep(500);
}
}