I really !.....  hate many things about Windows 8 but the nic speed has to be one of my most despised "features".    I used to go to monitor my nic in task manager and BOOM it told you that you had a gigabit connection and you might be using 10% of your throughput or in mbits the actual throughput you were consuming.

That is exactly the only thing I ever want to see - total possible speed and the percentage I'm using - I can't figure out if my computers are connecting at gigabit or 100mbit or even 10mbit now.   Can you please tell me an easy way of finding that out without trying to transfer a HUGE file and watching the graph go up?   Is there any way to get it back to the way it worked so well in Windows 7?    I know there are a lot of addons like classic shell to fix the cluster !..... that is Windows 8.   If there is a way to get this simple informative network detail back I would greatly appreciate it.

Look inside the taskmgr->Performance tab. here you have the actual speed in a graph.

What I see in the graph is my throughput is 64Kbps for send and 280 Kbps for receive.   What I know is that my connection speed is 1Gbit and my throughput would barely register above 0% at the moment. 

I care about the 1Gbit and the 1% but can't get that chart to show up.   That is the chart that is far more meaningful to me than a sliding scale.

I just noticed I can right click and get that info under network details.   Is there any way to get the graph to show me what matters instead of a ticker that has no stable foundation?

Resource Monitor will give you what you need with the graphs and a percentage of utilization.  You can find a link to this near the bottom of the Task Manager Performance Tab. &n

Thanks.   I didn't notice the bottom one in resource monitor as it wasn't labeled for speed.

The solution is not so? "Resource Monitor" in 8.1 there is no way to watch the NIC 100% scale. With each OS version is damaged more and more. Mudaku corporation.