Bandwidth Monitor tracks traffic of all network connections and displays real-time download and upload speeds in graphical and numerical forms (refer to screen shot below). The software logs traffic of all network connections and provides daily, weekly and monthly traffic reports. Bandwidth Monitor can also display download and upload speeds of multiple network connections on a computer at a time. For example, you can monitor bandwidth of mutiple network cards on your computer at the same time.

Bandwidth Monitor also offers useful built-in utilities: speeds stopwatch, transfer rates recorder, and bandwidth usage notification. And, the software supports to run as a system service that monitors bandwidth usages and generate traffic reports automatically without log on.

Bandwidth Monitor works with the majority network connections including modem, ISDN, DSL, ADSL, cable modem, Ethernet cards, wireless, VPN, and more. It's fully compatible with Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 2003, and Windows Vista.

Bandwidth Monitor is a traffic tracking tool. It monitors each of your network interfaces and displays many kinds of info about their network traffic. Current speed for both input and output are displayed in a nice looking semi-transparent graph. Of course, the transparency level can be adjusted using the options menu.

The user has access to daily, weekly, monthly or yearly traffic reports. These reports can be exported in text or CSV format. Also, you can record traffic rates at a specified interval of time. The minimum record interval is one second. You can use a timer which will show you how much data was transmitted and received, along with the number of seconds, minutes and hours since the timer was started.

Although at first I didnt see any use in having a traffic monitor, now I realize that there are multiple advantages in seeing your network and internet traffic in realtime. Bandwidth Monitor can assist you in troubleshooting your network as well as in spotting viruses and spyware before they do any damage. Most spyware transmit data from or to your computer, this being visible in Bandwidth Monitors graph.

Pluses: Simple to use, nice looking user interface.
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In conclusion: Anyone can use this tool. Network administrators and home users alike can enjoy the benefits of seeing their traffic statistics.

Bandwidth Monitor tracks traffic of all network connections and displays real-time download and upload speeds in graphical and numerical forms. The software logs traffic of all network connections and provides daily, weekly and monthly traffic reports. Bandwidth Monitor can also display download and upload speeds of multiple network connections on a computer at a time. It works with the majority network connections and is compatible with Vista.

Top 11 Benefits of Bandwidth Monitor:
* Network bandwidth monitoring
You can view the traffic flow of your network connections (LAN and WAN) in real-time using Bandwidth Monitor. The software is full compatible with all kinds of network connections.
* Internet bandwidth monitoring
If your computer connects to Internet via a dial-up connection based on modem, ISDN, DSL, ADSL, cable modem, or VPN, you can monitor the Internet bandwidth in real time and get your total bandwidth usages to avoid overshooting your Broadband limitation.
* Views download and upload speeds in real-time
You can view the download and upload speeds of your network or Internet connections in real-time. Bandwidth Monitor supports two units: kB/sec (kilobytes per second) and kbps (kilobits per second).

* Multiple network connections monitoring at a time
It's very useful when you want to monitor the Internet and LAN connections network traffic on one computer at the same time. You can also monitor traffic rates of ALL network connections on your computer.
* Gets daily, weekly, monthly and annual network traffic report
Bandwidth Monitor provides daily, weekly, monthly and summary traffic report. You can easy to get your bandwidth usages of every day, every week, every month, every year, or in total.
* Bandwidth usage notification
You can set a notification that alerts you when you exceed a certain amount of bandwidth usage for a specific connection.
* Monitor bandwidth usage of your server
Bandwidth Monitor supports to run as a system service. This means the software monitors bandwidth usage of your server without log on. The service monitors bandwidth usage, record rates, and generate traffic report in txt, csv, and html formats every N seconds. So, you can export traffic reports in html file to your web directory, and then browse the file to view bandwidth usage anywhere and anytime.

* Tests download and upload speeds of a network connection within a user-specified period
The built-in speeds stopwatch can help you to test the download and upload speeds of an network or Internet connection.
* Records traffic rates of a specified network connection
You can record download upload speeds of one or more network connections and export to a text or Microsoft Excel .csv file.
* No extra drivers needed
The Bandwidth Monitor doesn't install extra drivers to your computer. This will keep your system clean and reliable.
* Small, easy to use, and accurate
Size of Bandwidth Monitor is less than 1 MB; it has a simple interface, and uses very low CPU and memory resources.

Bandwidth Monitor Key Features:
* Network connections bandwidth monitoring
* Internet connections bandwidth monitoring
* Real-time graphical and numerical bandwidth speed displaying
* Monitor multiple network connections at a time
* Support to run as a system service that monitors bandwidth usages and generate traffic reports automatically
* Speed rates scale
* Works with majority network connections including modem, ISDN, DSL, ADSL, cable modem, wireless network cards, Ethernet cards, VPN, and more
* Scalable to your own modem download capabilities
* Provides daily, weekly, monthly and summary bandwidth usage reports, plus exports to a plain text, HTML, or Microsoft Excel .csv file
* Readout in either KB/sec (kilobytes per second) or >kbps (kilobits per second)
* Bandwidth usage notification (notify user by playing sound, computer beep, sending email, running a program)
* Download and upload speeds stopwatch
* Customize colors and fonts
* Show real-time network traffic graph in system tray
* Show time in traffic graph
* Show traffic graph in line or column style; and column width and space can be customized
* Show average download and upload lines in traffic graph
* Includes complete window configuration and view options
* Requires minimal system resources
* Full compatible with Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 2003, and Windows Vista

The license of this software is Free Trial Software, the price is $19.95, you can free download and get a free trial.