C# get system network usage

Question

I need a way to get the current system network usage, up and down.

I found some on the net but they\'re not working out for me.

Thanks for your help

Code

Answer 1

You can get the current system's network usage by working with PerformanceCounterCategory too:

using System;
using System.Diagnostics;

class Program
{
    static void Main()
    {
        PerformanceCounterCategory pcg = new PerformanceCounterCategory("Network Interface");
        string instance = pcg.GetInstanceNames()[0];
        PerformanceCounter pcsent = new PerformanceCounter("Network Interface", "Bytes Sent/sec", instance);
        PerformanceCounter pcreceived = new PerformanceCounter("Network Interface", "Bytes Received/sec", instance);

        Console.WriteLine("Bytes Sent: {0}", pcsent.NextValue() / 1024);
        Console.WriteLine("Bytes Received: {0}", pcreceived.NextValue() / 1024);
    }
}

Source: http://dotnet-snippets.com/snippet/show-network-traffic-sent-and-received/580