Monitor Your Broadband Internet Bandwidth Usage

September 1, 2008 · Filed Under Software · Comment 

Monitor Your Broadband Internet Bandwidth Usage

With the latest announcement by Comcast 250GB cap limit for all broadband services, we’re predicting other broadband companies to follow suit and impose a cap, and if that does happen, you’ll need to monitor your broadband bandwidth consumption, this can be done with free software made available by the open source community.

Honestly, I believe a 250Gb cap is fairly reasonable, most people won’t get that high, but that isn’t the point. What matter is the side effect, people won’t open their access points if they know there would be a limit, death to p2p and torrent? and no to mention by the end of the month all network would come to a stall because every single broadband user tries to maximize the available cap.

I’ve downloaded and gave these freeware try listed some of the best broadband bandwidth monitor software, some are freeware while a big number of the software are shareware, no crack or serial, just plain old free goodies for all, why pay when these free software performs the same task?

Freeware

Download iStat Menus (2.9mb) - Free broadband usage tool for Macs, it performs other task such as monitor cpu usage, fan speed, temperature and many more.

Download Bandwidth Vista (16.6mb) - Bandwidth Vista is a modern bandwidth meter, informative and intuitive to use. Whether you are looking for network problems or simply want to test your network speed. Bandwidth Vista monitors all your connected interfaces at once including dsl / adsl connections, wireless router throughput and ethernet connections and holds a history of data transfers which can be viewed down to the last hour.

Download ShaPlus Bandwidth Meter (101kb) - ShaPlus Bandwidth Meter remains in tray and displays the approximate bandwidth consumed for the session, day and month. This will be useful for people with limited bandwidth/month.

Download WatchWAN (2mb) - This is a more accurate alternative to DU Meter, Netmeter and other bandwidth monitors. Unlike others, it allows you to set filters to capture only the traffic you are interested in. It shows all the active connections you have to the Internet at any given moment and also the volume of traffic flowing through them. Of course, keeps an exact record of your bandwidth usage too.

Monitor Your Broadband Internet Bandwidth Usage

And the winner for the best broadband internet bandwidth monitor is ‘Bandwidth Monitor 2′ lite edition.

Download Bandwidth Monitor 2 Lite (857kb) - is a solution for metering the applications on your system that are accessing the internet. Advanced logging tools make it easy to view your bandwidth usage and make alterations to bandwidth logs.

Shareware

Download Ming Bandwidth Monitor (10mb) - For $14.95 MING Bandwidth Monitor is a powerful bandwidth meter, monitor and traffic controller, which measures, displays and controls all traffic to/from your computer or on your network. MING Bandwidth Monitor can display bandwidth data in a real-time graph, a numerical display, or both.

SoftPerfect Bandwidth Manager (2.1mb) - For $99 SoftPerfect Traffic Meter monitors your network traffic. With SoftPerfect Traffic Meter, you can create a full-featured system for monitoring the Internet traffic of specific users on your home or office network. SoftPerfect Traffic Meter works in real time, i.e. its statistics are displayed immediately either graphically or numerically.

Download DU Meter (1.8mb) - For $24.95 this software will enable you to use your Internet connection more efficiently by providing an accurate visualization of the data which is flowing through your computer’s network connection. DU Meter also includes an extensive reporting facility, a flexible notifications and events system

Download Rackeys Live Broadband (627kb) - For $9.95 you can download this broadband usage software for Windows machines.
Live Broadband usage meter will appear on your desktop after you connect to the internet, and continue giving you live broadband usage, but as soon as you disconnect the live broadband usage meter will disappear from your desktop, keeping your desktop free and open.

Download Net Meter (616kb) - This software from Hootech can be tried for 30 days for free; after that it costs $19.95. Measures usage, broadband speeds and allows you to save the data. Only for Windows machines.

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Broadband Bandwidth Management, Distribute Internet Connection Equally

March 21, 2008 · Filed Under How To and Online Tutorials · Comment 

One of the many problems when it comes to sharing broadband connection is the distribution of bandwidth, I’m having a tough time tweaking my wireless router settings, and things are made worst when the internet is shared between 8 people in the house.

I’ve tried searching for a solution and ways to distribute the broadband bandwidth and finally found out that the only way to distribute the broadband bandwidth equally among everyone is non other than the use of small-office broadband router, it’s the hardware that makes the difference. A good wireless router has the ability to set up a Virtual Private Networking with user ID and password for each individual, each individual can be allocated a certain amount of bandwidth, and a good router has the ability to block all bittorrent ports.

Broadband Bandwidth Management

Broadband Bandwidth Management

When it comes to choosing the right modem, choose those that comes with VPN (Virtual Private Networking), it is worth the investment and almost everything is on auto-pilot mode, this would prevent bandwidth hogs from loading your connection. Here are some really good VPN wireles routers:

linksys modem broadband management

d-link moderm router wireless broadband management

Distributing and sharing broadband internet connection has never been so easy, the best part is these routers has the ability to assign each person a login ID and password, allowing you to keep track on their surfing habits. Big brother is watching you.

If Linksys and D-link is way too expensive, try DrayTek Vigor 2800VG, its the cheapest and yet pack with lots of features that can never be found in D-link or Linksys router. Try the Live Web Admin Interface demo, you’ll be amazed.

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