GabNetStats

GabNetStats is a handy swiss-knife tool for managing your network interfaces and showing and statistics. Featuring an old-school but very missed blinking network status icon in the system tray, network traffic graph, and advanced network statistics.

Features

• Adds an icon in the statusbar for a visual hint of network traffic
• Detailed statistics about network connections
• Context menu for easy access to network configuration
• Real-time network graph

Dependencies

GabTracker : https://github.com/gabsoftware/GabTracker This is the .NET control of the graph. It does not track you! It is poorly named.

Building

GabNetStats targets net10.0-windows10.0.26100.0 so builds require the .NET 10 SDK with the Windows desktop workload and Windows SDK 10.0.26100 or newer. The project metadata keeps the supported Windows API baseline at Windows 7 (6.1) for both GabNetStats and GabTracker; the Windows 10 target platform version is the SDK/API reference version, not the declared minimum OS baseline.

Clone the projects

• Clone this repository in one directory
• Clone the GabTracker repository at the same level, so that both cloned repositories are located in the same directory.

For example:

C:\mydir\
  |- GabNetStats
  |- GabTracker

Build from Visual Studio 2026

• Open the GabNetStats solution in Visual Studio 2026
• If it cannot find the GabTracker project, in the solution, add an existing project and choose the GabTracker project
• Generate the solution
• GabNetStats should build without errors.

Build from command line

Alternatively, you can build GabNetStats from the command line:

cd C:\mydir\GabNetStats
dotnet build -c Release .\GabNetStats.sln

Many thanks to :

• Igor Tolmachev (www.itsamples.com) for the original idea
• Valerij Romanovskij (alias ext5 on GitHub) for the Russian translation
• erasmion (https://github.com/erasmion) for providing the erasmion icon set!