A program for tracking incoming and outgoing traffic on your computer. It will help you not to exceed the traffic limit and not end up without the Internet at all.
ATTENTION: Starting from version 6, the program has become paid, so in order to avoid misunderstandings, do not update it. Here is the last one free version 5.5.5.
Anyone who used the Internet five years ago probably remembers the most main problem user - constantly monitor the amount of traffic. After all, there were no unlimited packages back then, and Dial-Up connections required money for every megabyte of information downloaded.
As a result, if you don’t control traffic consumption, you could end up costing a pretty penny :). But the people are inventive and they came up with many programs for measuring and limiting the flow. Today, the need for such utilities has decreased a little, but they are still in use, because during their existence they have acquired many additional useful functions.
Thanks to such programs, today you can measure the speed of your Internet connection, check all processes that have access to the Internet, measure traffic usage in corporate networks, and much more.
A small program has all the above functions - NetWorx. In addition, it has a number of additional features, which will be useful to both the system administrator and the average user. An equally simple but powerful tool can be called a paid program - DU Meter.
Comparison of the free traffic metering program NetWorx with the paid analogue DU Meter
In addition, in NetWorx you can impose a quota on the amount of traffic, as well as launch various applications on a schedule. The program itself comes in two versions: portable and installation. I think it's easiest to use the "portable" version, although if you're a fan of installers, you can easily install NetWorx using the standard installation wizard.
Installing NetWorx
I will assume that you downloaded the portable version. To get started, you need to unpack the archive with the program and run the executable exe file. Before directly launching NetWorx, we’ll make a couple of settings. First, you will need to specify the program language, and second, you will need to enable or disable checking for new versions. That's all :).
After this, a program icon will appear in the tray (a place next to the system clock), with which we will manage it.
NetWorx will be managed through a right-click context menu.
Here in this menu all the functions of the program are listed, but before use you can make some settings. To do this, click on the menu section of the same name.
NetWorx Settings
“Settings” consists of several tabs. In “General” we can configure the speed units, information displayed in the tray, and also (most importantly!) which connection to monitor (by default, all traffic is counted).
The “Graph” and “Graph Colors” sections allow us to customize appearance graphics of incoming/outgoing information packets. In “Notifications” you can enable and configure service messages from the program, and in “Additional” we have the opportunity to configure the collection of statistics.
The very last tab, Dial-up, allows you to set the default connection and add applications that will run with NetWorx.
After the settings are made, first click the “Apply” button for them to take effect, and then “Ok” to exit the settings.
Traffic Monitor
Now let's go directly through the NetWorx tools. The first and main one is a traffic monitor. It is presented in the form of a graph, which is called by the “Show graph” button.
The graph can be presented in the form of a histogram (in my opinion, this is the most convenient), curved lines, or simply numbers. In this case, there will always be two numbers at the bottom. Number with index "D" (default blue) shows the amount of incoming traffic (from the English download), and “U” (green) respectively outgoing traffic (from the English upload).
Velocity change curves are drawn in the corresponding colors on the graph, the numerical value of which can be correlated with the scale on the left.
Speed measurement
The next button - “Speed measurement” - unfortunately, does not measure the overall speed of your Internet connection, but only the current speed of background packet transmission. This may be needed to compare (saving is available) the results under full load on the channel (for example, downloading a file) and at rest.
To start the test, just click the “Start” button and mark a certain period of time. The result can then be saved to a text file, and then compared with the new data obtained when “loading” the channel.
Statistics
What you will like most about this feature is system administrators, since it is possible to keep both a general count of traffic and display detailed statistics for each of the network users. The results can be exported to xls format (Excel spreadsheets) and saved on a computer.
There are also tools for backup statistics and their further restoration (for example, if you need to save all the data after reinstalling the system).
Traffic quota
Moving on, we move on to the “Quota” section. This function is most suitable for users with a Dial-up connection or limited traffic (for example, mobile Internet). It allows you to set maximum quantity received or sent information and will always warn the user about exceeding the specified limit.
By default, the quota is set to 0.00 KB, so if you want to use this function, you will need to “Configure” it first :).
In the settings, we specify the type of quota (daily, weekly, monthly, last 24 hours) and the type of traffic (incoming, outgoing or all). You can leave the clock as is, and then specify the units of measurement and the quota itself.
To save the settings, click “Ok”, and in the quota monitoring window, do not forget to check the box “Notify when the quota is used by %” in order to receive timely information about overspending.
Route tracing
We have already looked at the “Settings” item, so let’s move on to the next one – “Route tracing”. If you suddenly lost access to any Internet resource or you need to find out which path you take before you get to this or that site, try tracing this path. This can be done using standard Windows capabilities, but with NetWorx it is much easier and more visual.
To start tracing, enter the name of the site (remote computer) or its IP address. Now you can set the response time (although often the standard value is more than enough) and you can click “Start”. In this case, we traced the site yandex.ru and saw that to access it you need to go through 11 intermediate servers, and the total time to travel this path is 31 ms.
Ping
The next option is “Ping”. The window interface of this function is very similar to the previous one, but its purpose is somewhat different. Ping, simply put, is the speed at which a remote computer responds to a request you send. The built-in NetWorx ping is inferior in capabilities to the standard one (it is not possible to set your own keys to change parameters), but it copes with the main task.
The disadvantage of the function is that you cannot directly enter the Internet address of the site - you need to know its exact IP (you can find out from the previous utility). Now specifically about use: enter the address of the remote PC, select the waiting time and the number of echo requests and click “Start”.
In our example, the site was pinged vkontakte.ru. The average response time is not calculated automatically, but it can be calculated in your head by adding all the obtained values and dividing by three :).
It turned out to be about 45 ms, which in principle is good (ping up to 50 ms ± 10 ms is considered good). The TTL value is the “lifetime” of the echo packet. The number 64 means that the sent packet of information can pass through 64 intermediate servers.
Connections
The last tool is Connections. It allows you to monitor all applications that require an Internet connection.
I immediately advise you to enable the “Convert addresses to names” option. This way you can see where this or that application is going and stop its attempt to connect to a suspicious resource. Pay special attention to “established” connections (ESTABLISHED) and listening ports (LISTENING), as they can pose a hidden threat.
If a suspicious connection is detected, you can immediately terminate the application that installs it by right-clicking on it and selecting “End Application”.
Conclusions
Thus, we can summarize all of the above. NetWorx is not just a program for monitoring your Internet connection, but also a complex for ensuring security and comprehensive network diagnostics.
Therefore, if you suspect that some application is using traffic irrationally or even transmitting confidential information, try monitoring your network with the NetWorx program and you can easily identify the “spy” :).
P.S. Permission is granted to freely copy and quote this article, provided that an open active link to the source is indicated and the authorship of Ruslan Tertyshny is preserved.
- Easy to set up!
- Real-time consumption graphs.
- Control all devices from one PC.
- Notification when the limit is exceeded.
- Supports WMI, SNMPv1/2c/3 and 64-bit counters.
- Determine who is downloading and from where.
- Check your provider!
"10-Strike: Traffic Accounting" is simple program to control traffic consumption on computers, switches, servers on the network at the enterprise and even at home (3 sensors can be monitored for free in the trial version even after the 30-day trial period has expired). Monitor volumes incoming and outgoing consumed traffic on computers throughout your local network, incl. when accessing the Internet.
The program constantly collects statistics from network hosts on incoming and outgoing traffic and displays in real time the dynamics of changes in data transfer speed on network interfaces in the form of graphs and tables.
With our accounting program you can detect unscrupulous users who consume a lot of Internet traffic in your organization. Violation of labor discipline by employees leads to decrease in labor productivity. A simple analysis of traffic consumption on employee computers will allow you to identify the most active network users. When using WMI sensors, you don’t even need to install anything on network computers, you just need an administrator password.
Unfortunately, in our country Internet traffic for legal entities cheap. It often happens that excessive Internet activity of users (often unrelated to the work process) leads to cost overruns organizations to pay for connection. Using our program will help prevent your business from receiving unexpectedly high Internet bills. You can customize notification for consumption of a certain amount of traffic computers on the network over a period of time.
You can observe speed graphs of incoming and outgoing traffic computers and network devices on the screen in real time. Can be done promptly determine who spends the most traffic and clogs the channel.
The program constantly monitors traffic consumption on network computers and can notify you when certain conditions are met, which you can ask. For example, if the amount of traffic consumed by any computer exceeds a specified value, or the average information transfer rate for a certain period is above/below a threshold value. When the specified condition is met, the program will notify you in one of the following ways:
- displaying a message on the computer screen;
- sound signal;
- sending e-mail messages;
- writing to the program log file;
- entry into the Event Log of the system.
In addition, the traffic accounting program can execute certain actions when conditions are met: run the program, execute a VB or JS script, restart the service, restart the computer, etc.
As the monitoring program works accumulates traffic consumption statistics network computers. You can find out at any time who and how much traffic was consumed at any given time, and what data transfer speeds were achieved. Traffic download/upload speed graphs, as well as traffic consumption tables, can be built for any time period or date.
Awards
In February 2015 English version program earned an award - a finalist in the "Network Computing Awards 2015" competition of the popular British magazine "Network Computing" in the "IT Optimization Product of The Year" category.
When you purchase a license, you will receive a subscription to free program and technical updates. support for one year.
Download the free 30-day version now and try it out! Windows XP/2003/Vista/2008/7/8.1/2012/10/2016 are supported.
Traffic counter useful thing. Especially if you have limited access to the network in terms of time or the amount of megabytes used. Not everyone has unlimited, right? Many people have unlimited access at home, but use a 3G connection or mobile Internet outside the home for a laptop, like me, for example. And this type of communication is usually limited. You need to monitor your traffic consumption so as not to lose money if you overspend.
I suggest you use NetWorx — free program for accounting Internet traffic and monitoring Internet connection speed. This small, necessary program will help you monitor the speed (traffic cops don’t sleep!) of movement on the network, and will also show how many kilograms of the Internet have been downloaded in a certain time.
By using NetWorx You can set a time or megabyte limit. And when this threshold is reached, a notification will appear on the screen saying that your song has been sung and it’s time to wind down. Can you ask automatic shutdown from the network or launching certain programs. Convenient, useful, easy.
Download and install NetWorx: 1.7MB
When you right-click on the tray icon, the following menu will appear...
This article will look at software solutions that will help you control your traffic. Thanks to them, you can see a summary of the Internet connection consumption of a particular process and limit its priority. It is not necessary to view recorded reports on a PC with special software installed in its OS - this can be done remotely. It won’t be a problem to find out the cost of consumed resources and much more.
Software from SoftPerfect Research that allows you to control consumed traffic. The program provides additional settings that make it possible to see information about megabytes consumed for a specific day or week, peak and off-peak hours. It is possible to see indicators of incoming and outgoing speed, received and sent data.
The tool will be especially useful in cases where metered 3G or LTE is used, and, accordingly, restrictions are required. If you have more than one account, statistics about each individual user will be displayed.
DU Meter
An application for tracking the consumption of resources from the World Wide Web. In the work area you will see both incoming and outgoing signals. By connecting account service dumeter.net, which is offered by the developer, you can collect statistics on the use of information flow from the Internet from all PCs. Flexible settings will help you filter the stream and send reports to your email.
The parameters allow you to specify restrictions when using a connection to the World Wide Web. In addition, you can specify the cost of the service package provided by your provider. There is a user manual in which you will find instructions for working with the existing functionality of the program.
Network Traffic Monitor
A utility that displays network usage reports with a simple set of tools without the need for prior installation. The main window displays statistics and a summary of the connection that has Internet access. The application can block the stream and limit it, allowing the user to specify their own values. In the settings you can reset the recorded history. It is possible to record existing statistics in a log file. An arsenal of necessary functionality will help you record download and upload speeds.
TrafficMonitor
The application is great solution for a counter of information flow from the network. There are many indicators that show the amount of data consumed, output, speed, maximum and average values. Software settings allow you to determine the cost of currently used volumes of information.
The generated reports will contain a list of actions related to the connection. The graph is displayed in a separate window, and the scale is displayed in real time; you will see it on top of all the programs in which you work. The solution is free and has a Russian-language interface.
NetLimiter
The program has modern design and powerful functionality. What makes it special is that it provides reports that provide a summary of the traffic consumption of each process running on the PC. Statistics are perfectly sorted by different periods, and therefore it will be very easy to find the desired period of time.
If NetLimiter is installed on another computer, you can connect to it and control its firewall and other functions. To automate processes within the application, rules created by the user are used. In the scheduler, you can create your own limits when using the services of a provider, as well as block access to the global and local networks.
DUTraffic
The special feature of this software is that it displays advanced statistics. There is information about the connection from which the user entered the global space, sessions and their duration, as well as duration of use and much more. All reports are accompanied by information in the form of a diagram highlighting the duration of traffic consumption over time. In the parameters you can customize almost any design element.
The graph that is displayed in a specific area is updated in a second-by-second mode. Unfortunately, the utility is not supported by the developer, but has a Russian interface language and is distributed free of charge.
BWMeter
The program monitors download/upload and speed of the existing connection. Using filters displays an alert if processes in the OS are consuming network resources. Various filters are used to solve many different problems. The user will be able to fully customize the displayed graphs at their discretion.
Among other things, the interface shows the duration of traffic consumption, the reception and upload speed, as well as the minimum and maximum values. The utility can be configured to display alerts when events such as the number of megabytes downloaded and connection time occur. By entering the site address in the appropriate line, you can check its ping, and the result is written to a log file.
BitMeter II
A solution for providing a summary of the use of provider services. The data is available in both tabular and graphical formats. The parameters configure alerts for events related to connection speed and consumed stream. For ease of use, BitMeter II allows you to calculate how much time it will take to download the amount of data you enter in megabytes.
The functionality allows you to determine how much available volume is left provided by the provider, and when the limit is reached, a message about this is displayed in the taskbar. Moreover, downloading can be limited in the parameters tab, and you can also monitor statistics remotely in browser mode.
The presented software products will be indispensable for monitoring the consumption of Internet resources. The functionality of the applications will help you create detailed reports, and reports sent by e-mail are available for viewing at any convenient time.