gHacks technology news » bandwidth monitor http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:29:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Network Bandwidth Monitor http://www.ghacks.net/2008/11/10/network-bandwidth-monitor/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/11/10/network-bandwidth-monitor/#comments Mon, 10 Nov 2008 11:50:19 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=8187 If you have to pay per Megabyte transferred or only have a limited amount of free traffic until you have to pay for additional Megabytes transferred then you might want to use a network bandwidth monitor to always have up to date traffic figures to avoid having to pay more than needed.

ShaPlus Bandwidth Meter is a small lightweight network bandwidth monitor for Windows operating systems that monitors the traffic of selected network adapters in real-time. The bandwidth monitor displays a small always on top window by default which displays the the current bandwidth usage as well as that of the day and the month in either Megabyte or Gigabyte.

The transparency of the window can be changed and it can be moved freely around on the computer screen. The last available option is a window that is showing the bandwidth usage per month separated into download, upload and total.

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The network bandwidth monitor uses roughly six Megabytes of computer memory when running in the Windows System Tray. The display of the bandwidth meter window does not change that number noticeably.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2008/11/10/network-bandwidth-monitor/feed/ 5 Netlimiter 2 Monitor http://www.ghacks.net/2008/07/04/netlimiter-2-monitor/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/07/04/netlimiter-2-monitor/#comments Fri, 04 Jul 2008 08:34:08 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=5205 Do you know which applications and processes connect to the Internet on your computer ? If you use a firewall chance is that you had to define rules to allow certain programs the right to connect to the Internet. Sometimes however users think of this as a burden and use low security settings to prevent that they are being pestered all day with questions from their Firewall.

Netlimiter 2 Monitor is a sweet software that displays all open processes and applications on the system detailing their incoming and outgoing bandwidth along with ports, IP addresses and process numbers. That’s basically the same amount of information that my previous favorite Currports is displaying.

The first difference is that Netlimiter Monitor has a history function where it is displaying which applications connected to the Internet before on your system. Great for quickly checking out if an app is among the list that should not be there.

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It’s definitely a great application if you want to evaluate the bandwidth usage of a process or software. I used it to keep an eye on Skype to see if my computer was used as a Skype supernode.

The Pro version of Netlimiter adds some interesting functions like Traffic Shaping, Network support, Network Tools like Whois and Traceroute, Remote Administration and Advanced Rules.

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