Network Lights lets you monitor network activity from your keyboard

Network Lights is a Windows program, which blinks keyboard LEDs Light Emitting Diode indicating outgoing and incoming network packets on network interface. Network Lights lets you monitor network activity upload/download from your keyboard ScrollLock and NumLock indicators. Each LED will flicker when network traffic is detected.

“I’d recommend against running Network Lights on a laptop which doesn’t have a full numeric pad on the keyboard. As the app flicks the LED on and off, your dual-mode keys (usually on the right side around J-K-L) will periodically become unresponsive. While this is an older app and hasn’t been updated in quite some time, Network Lights runs just fine under Windows 7.” via [Lee Mathews | DownloadSquad]

“This utility is a standalone executable. You can use the system tray icon (click the mouse) to customize program settings. If you have an older motherboard and your keyboard LED doesn’t blink when there are network traffic, try going to Settings and enable “Force Keyboard Capture” option.” via [Raymond.cc]

via Network Lights – IT Samples.