What's a good, light, unintrusive and free tool to monitor network/internet speed for the Mac?

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I need to know how much internet activity is taking place on my iMac. I don't want something very detailed like Little Snitch or some professional network analysis tool. I'm looking at something simple that can simply upload/download speeds in the Mac OS Menu Bar next to the WiFi and other icons.

If you've used DUMeter or NetMeter on Windows, you know what I'm talking about.

http://superuser.com/questions/123001/is-there-a-good-tool-for-monitoring-network-activity-on-mac-os-x mentions iStat - have you tried it? — Sathyajith Bhat, Jul 03 '11 at 05:48

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 05 '11 at 18:33

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Found the answer from another question. iStat Menus and MenuMeters do what I need.

Thanks to @Sathya!

answered Jul 05 '11 at 18:33

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The proper way to handle this is to request that the user leave the comment as an answer. He deserves the rep. – Daniel Beck Jul 05 '11 at 19:02
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iStat Menus is not free and MenuMeters is not compatible with elCrapitan – pathfinder Jan 02 '16 at 18:15

What's a good, light, unintrusive and free tool to monitor network/internet speed for the Mac?

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