What Is It?

NetLimiter Monitor is a freeware “limited functionality” version of Netlimiter Lite or Pro which are shareware. NetLimiter monitor provides realtime and historical values for the data transfer of any process either across the Internet or across your Local Area Network (LAN). Information is provided on the application, process number, IP address and port being used for both sent and received data. Historical data can be exported to file.

Why Would You Want It?

There are many reasons that you may want or need to know the data being sent and received by your PC, these may include:

1. Bandwidth and total data capping or limitations by your ISP
2. Identifying processes that hog bandwidth
3. Checking if a process is communicating or has stalled
4. Identifying the external IP address that a process is communicating with
5. Idle curiosity

Why Do I Want It?

I use it as another general monitoring tool that I can run in the background without much strain on system resources. If I then need to try and identify some particular problem or trend of bandwidth use then there is both current and historical information available. A recent use has been checking the uploading of posts from Windows Live Writer to my host server which on occasion has been problematic. NetLimiter Monitor helped me identify this has an ISP problem and not my host server. I have also used it to get an idea of the amount of data transfer when my Windows Home Server was backing up my computers. Finally it has been useful in determining whether a process is communication with an IP address that I consider legitimate (such as a version update check rather than sending usage stats to a third party).

What Does It Do – The Essentials?

Summary:

• Measures data transfer across a computer network
• Identifies the different Zones:

1. Internet
2. My Computer
3. Local Network

Pros: What’s Good?

Features & Benefits

• Freeware

• Simple to Use
• Instantaneous data rates
• Historical data
• Help file included

Cons:What’s Not So Good?

• Help could be more detailed
• Starting Stats for each application individually on first use

More About What it Does in Detail:

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Go to Page 3 for ProReviewer Summary

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