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+<page xmlns="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/"
+ type="topic" style="task"
+ id="net-check">
+ <info>
+ <revision version="0.2" pkgversion="3.11" date="2014-01-26" status="incomplete"/>
+ <link type="guide" xref="" group="net" />
+
+ <include href="legal.xml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"/>
+
+ <credit type="author copyright">
+ <name>Phil Bull</name>
+ <email>philbull@gmail.com</email>
+ <years>2011</years>
+ </credit>
+
+ <credit type="author copyright">
+ <name>Michael Hill</name>
+ <email>mdhillca@gmail.com</email>
+ <years>2011, 2014</years>
+ </credit>
+
+ <desc>The <gui>Resources</gui> tab shows you the volume of data that's
+ passing over your network connections.
+ </desc>
+ </info>
+
+ <title>Check network usage and connection speed</title>
+
+ <comment>
+ <cite date="2011-06-18" href="mailto:philbull@gmail.com">Phil Bull</cite>
+ <p>Explain how to check network usage and what all the numbers mean. Why
+ might there be spikes?</p>
+ </comment>
+
+ <p>To check the current network usage of your computer:</p>
+
+ <steps>
+ <item><p>Click the <gui>Resources</gui> tab.</p>
+ </item>
+ </steps>
+ <list>
+ <item><p><gui>Network History</gui> displays a running line graph for the
+ volume of data passing over your network connections, split up into data
+ received and sent. These are plotted against time, with the current time at
+ the right.</p>
+ <note style = "tip"><p>The color of each line is indicated by the down and
+ up arrows (for <gui>Receiving</gui> and <gui>Sending</gui> respectively)
+ underneath the graph. Click an arrow to change the color of the
+ corresponding line graph.</p>
+ </note>
+ </item>
+ <item><p>Below the graph is shown <gui>Receiving</gui> and <gui>Sending</gui>
+ <link xref="net-bits">bit rate</link> or connection speed, as well as
+ total data transferred in each direction.</p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+
+</page>