Activity Monitor not reading USB modem

Activity monitor is not registering network activity when using my USB modem.

Sort by the percent cpu to see which processes are taking the most cpu time.  Be sure you select "All Processes" from the Show popup menu tart the top of the window.
The following will give you some infor on how to interpret the memory info in AE.
Using Activity Monitor to read System Memory and determine how much RAM is being used
If you wanted to see the activity on individual drives using something like iStat Menus.  The link I gave to iStat Menus is to the macupdate.com page so you can see similar utilities in the Similar Software section oon that page.

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    See picture: http://bostonwebstudio.com/picture1.png
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