With ISP’s starting to be more aware of their customer’s rising bandwidth usage, many are imposing restriction. With this, the need for utilities which can help monitor your bandwidth can quite useful. One tool you might find interesting is NetWorx.
The program allows you to monitor all your network connections or a specific network connection (such as Ethernet or PPP) only. The software also features a system of highly customizable visual and sound alerts. You can set it up to alert you when the network connection is down or when some suspicious activity, such as unusually heavy data flow, occurs. It can also automatically disconnect all dialup connections and shut down the system.
For the most part, unless you are a really heavy user which does a lot of downloading or watching videos online, this isn’t something you need to be worried about. However, if you ever do get a warning from your ISP, having a tool to help track and report on your usage can be very valuable.
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I got nothing but great things to say about this resource friendly program. Absolutely love it! Plenty of options, plenty of graphs, charts and ways of measuring data usage.. Thanks for the recommendation!
I have another program I use Bitmeter2, or something by that name. Could I run both of these programs at the same time?
If I have 6 computers attached to a single home router will a single installation of this program on a single PC provide me with the total internet traffic for all 6 computers? Can it be set up to ignore data transfers between computers behind the router?
I think most of these bandwidth monitoring programs are designed for single PC’s. If you need to monitor several PC’s then you would need your router/gateway device to handle this.
As an FYI: The latest version of the open-source router firmwareDD-WRT allows you to monitor traffic (bandwidth) for your entire network.
Jason
thanks for the tip. This is a great utility as are all your finds for Pcmech!
Earlwallace
I used many bandwidth softwares to monitor the my downloads and uploads but netwrox is bit user friendly and many esteemed features …I suggest to every one to use it …
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The latest version of the open-source router firmwareDD-WRT allows you to monitor traffic (bandwidth) for your entire network.
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Is this for Linksys routers only?
No, several routers are supported actually. Check out http://www.dd-wrt.com/dd-wrtv3/dd-wrt/hardware.html for details.