If you need to know the geo-location and IP of the connection that you are making to and from, then Bandwidth Vista is the application for you. For those who need a small tool to monitor a spike in Internet usage, this is the one to go for. There is no history or summary feature, but you can run the ping utility to see if a site is up. It tracks your traffic usage and show them on the graph, real-time. The latest version is now closed source and is only available for download on the developer’s website. It used to be open source, but the developer took down the Open Source tag because someone took the code, rebrand it and publish it as their own.

My personal favorite is the Speedtest that measure how fast my Internet connection is.įreeMeter is a small and portable application that acts like a widget on your desktop.

There is also plenty of test tools that you can use to test your Internet connection. You can change the visual style to show animated icon, scrolling graph or bar meter and get it to display the traffic for all Internet connection or only for local connection. The good thing about tbbMeter is that it is highly configurable. It comes with a graph to allow you to see how much data your computer is sending to and receiving from the Internet in real time. TbbMeter is a bandwidth meter to help you monitor your Internet usage. So if your Internet connection is slow, you can find out which point of connection is slowing down the data transmission. It also tracks your CPU usage and show you how quickly your data goes from your computer to another computer on the Internet. If you noticed, NetStats Live is more than just a bandwidth monitor. To put it simply, it measures your Internet usage and display them in a easy to read format. NetStat Live (NSL) is a small, easy to use TCP/IP protocol monitor which records all incoming and outgoing traffic (the bandwidth, not the data) and lets you see the exact throughput on both incoming and outgoing data. Windows 7 doesn’t come with a native application for you to track your Internet usage, but there are several useful and lightweight third-party apps that can easily get the job done.

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