Monitor your bandwidth usage and internet speed with NetMeter

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Internet bandwidth is a precious commodity. In countries like India, broadband access is limited by the amount of data (uploads/downloads) that you can transfer.NetMeter

You may also want to monitor your internet speeds regularly. Third-party sites can be used for this purpose, but such tests are inaccurate because of latencies and other inefficiencies. The best way would be to install a program in the computer to monitor how much data is sent out and received.

NetMeter is a small Windows utility to monitor your bandwidth usage (total, daily, weekly and monthly). It shows graphical representation of internet speeds, with the internet speeds in numbers and the bandwidth usage in numbers below the graph. The window is resizable and can be docked into any part of the screen. I usually dock it in the bottom right corner.

In Windows XP, NetMeter supports transparency and click-through. There is also fade-in and fade-out transparency, which means that NetMeter will fade away when you hover the mouse over it. Click through feature basically makes NetMeter an overlay, so that you cannot click it (it becomes partially transparent too).

Tip: Right click on NetMeter for a context-menu with Options, Totals log and Show/hide NetMeter.

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February 22nd, 2008 Leave a comment

6 Comments

  1. aravind said on February 22nd, 2008

    This software is awesome.
    I personally use this and i would like to recommend this to anyone who needs to keep an eye on data usage statistics.

  2. Nirmal said on February 22nd, 2008

    I have just taken a USB modem and this is what I was looking for, to check my usage.

  3. Post authorSumesh said on February 23rd, 2008

    @Nirmal and Aravind: Glad that you found it useful. Check back for more :D

  4. Shankar Ganesh said on February 26th, 2008

    This software is good, but I don’t really need it because I’m on an unlimited connection :D

  5. Post authorSumesh said on February 26th, 2008

    @Shankar: I am on an unlimited pipe too, but speeds are in the 120-170 Kbps range, so I need to monitor it.

  6. Manoj said on May 14th, 2008

    I’ve been using it for years. I really love it!

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