NBMonitor Network Bandwidth Monitor

A network and internet bandwidth monitoring tool that lists all active connections to the internet and tracks usage across applications.

Features: NBMonitor monitors your network connection constantly, and therefore gives a constant view of the network bandwidth usage originating at your computer. This works at several levels. First and foremost, it enables you to track instantaneous as well as average (long-term) bandwidth usage, so that you can compare this with the amount that you are billed for by an ISP. To this end it also allows for instantaneous visualization of network usage in graphical form. The amount of uploading and downloading activity is available separately. Additionally, all network connections originating at your computer are monitored and logged. This includes connections initiated not only by programs but also individual processes. It can also provide statistical information pertaining to each individual connection or pertaining to each individual IP address pair. Filters can be set to capture only specific data that you as a user are interested in. For example one may be curious to see if files are downloaded from a particular website. All the monitoring information which is collected in logs can be used to generate reports, on a daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly basis. The logs can also be exported to XML format files.

Overall: NBMonitor works as advertised, but sadly it does nothing further. For example a feature to stop or block the connection by an unwanted program or process should have been included, and would have added to the product’s utility greatly. In many cases, a given problem program/process is hard to locate and remove for the average user (they may not even show up in the add/remove programs list) and such a capability would therefore have been handy.

NBMonitor tracks your internet bandwidth (upload and downloads) usage, monitors all your Internet, it shows all the active connections you have to the Internet at any given moment and also the volume of traffic flowing through them. NBMonitor displays real-time details about your network connections and network adapter's bandwidth usage. Unlike others, it shows process names initiated network connections and allows you to set filters to capture only the traffic you are interested in. As a number of ISP's are now disconnecting customers for using "too much" bandwidth, knowing exactly how much you've downloaded or uploaded in a given month can be very helpful. NBMonitor monitors and analyzes the network traffic and displays statistical information pertaining to each IP address pair and protocol, helping network administrators and users troubleshoot network problems. The main purpose of NBMonitor is to allow you to collect statistical information about your network traffic that passes through network adapters and display incoming, outgoing and summary traffic statistics. This information is useful, especially for understanding the different IP addresses and data amounts involved with a given network utilizing task. The tool is designed with a user-friendly interface and is easy to use.