If you want to monitor your network traffic either because you have an account that gives you only a limited amount of bandwidth each month or because you simply want to analyze the traffic that is sent over your connection during a special period, then you need a network monitor for that. When you run Netmeter you will notice that it immediately starts to record outgoing and incoming traffic as well as other data such as peak upload and download speed.
You can adjust the transparency level of the output window or move Netmeter into the system tray. You can also adjust the colors of the graph if you like, the default colors have a nice contrast though.
The most important feature of Netmeter is however not information about the current network traffic but the statistics that it accumulates over time. In short, it displays totals for the day, week and month as well as projected figures for the same periods.
It also displays the peak upload and download which is the maximum amount of bandwidth that your connection was capable of. This can be used to analyze the download and upload limit of your connection. Helpful if your provider sold you a 16 Mbit connection but you only get speeds of 2 Mbit. Just make sure you use to download and upload data from a server that is capable of sending data in your maximum speeds. You could alternatively just keep it running in the background to check on the stats in regular intervals.
Netmeter has an alert function that warns you when you reach a defined amount of gigabytes during a day, week or month. This is probably the best feature for users with limited bandwidth accounts making sure that you do not have to pay additional fees to your provider because you went over your bandwidth limit.
Best of all it is free to use and does not use many resources. Available only for Microsoft Windows.
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Interesting. I may like to try out this, although I have been using Awstats and sitemeter all along for my site.
How extremly interesting. Comparable to Google Analytics, if I may add.
I use it 24/7 and have been using it for more than a year now – it has never crashed and uses the minimum amount of memory, which, for a person using a 3 year old laptop and runs multiple applications, is literally a god-send.
I prefer to use ProteMac Meter. Great tool.