Comments on: Help me find a bandwidth monitor.

Question: Help me find a bandwidth monitor.

griphus — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 23:51:50 -0800

I'm looking for a freeware Windows bandwidth monitor that can be minimized to an icon sitting in the taskbar that displays a graph (think Process Explorer-style) of the up/down bandwidth.

There's a whole lot of these out there, so if the HiveMind can help me sort through the crap, I'd be thankful. My Google-fu fails me on this, but I remember using one that did this that had a crippling bug in it that would cause it to just stop working, reinstalls be damned. I neither remember the name, nor can I find it again, nor can I find anything nearly as useful.

By: gergtreble

gergtreble — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 00:16:39 -0800

I've used NetMeter for a number of years. It seems to do exactly what you want.

By: kall

kall — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 00:29:24 -0800

seconding NetMeter, it's EXACTLY what you describe

By: griphus

griphus — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 01:01:12 -0800

What NetMeter does in the application window is exactly what I want it to do, but in the system tray. It doesn't seem to have that option, only gauges.

By: tomw

tomw — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 04:04:52 -0800

Worth noting you can get programs to do the minimising for you... this one for example.

By: JonnyRotten

JonnyRotten — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 05:38:30 -0800

I'm a big fan of freemeter. Worth a check out.