Our recommended download this month is Net Meter. This Vista-friendly package monitors all traffic through all network connections on the chosen computer, displaying a real-time graphical and numerical histogram-style representation of download and upload speeds. It will let you monitor everything at once, or just a single LAN, WAN, Wi-Fi or VPN connection.
Traffic counts can be logged and viewed as daily, weekly, monthly or yearly totals, and there’s a stopwatch feature that gives a temporary data volume and rate count. Net Meter will even notify you if you exceed a total amount of bandwidth usage, perfect for those capped broadband accounts.
