"Dave Hinz" wrote in message

There ya go, solves activity monitoring _and_ a big security concern.
And it's free. But I know what he means, I did like having those LEDs
to tell me at a glance what was going on.

I agree. What I miss the most was the light indicating a high speed
connection. If it was out, you'd cancel the download and try again. I
suppose there's software that can do that now, but the physical light was a
quick easy indication of whether to continue or not.