Bandwidth Tools For Monitoring your bandwidth

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So I've done some looking around for bandwidth programs.  So here's what I found so far.  The programs I've got listed are not test and are therefore your responsible for any and all use of the programs.

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  FreeMeter Bandwidth Monitor For Windows - Monitor network bandwidth (C#.NET 2k/XP+). Desktop and Systray graph. Configurable connection speed, update interval, color, transparency. Monitor any or all network interfaces. Ping/Trace/UPnP utilities. Email notifier (POP/IMAP). Requires .NET 2.0.

  
  


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  Pipelog - Windows Bandwidth Meter -- Pipelog is a Windows bandwidth meter that gives live statistics of accumulated bandwidth usage. It is written in C# and runs on the .NET Framework.

  
  


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  Windows Service Monitor -- Monitor and automatically restart Windows Services with this small Win32 command line utility. Windows Service Monitor (WinSMon) can monitor several services, restart services that stop/fail and limit the number of restart times.

  
  


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  iptotal -- iptotal is an IP traffic monitor. It listens to a network interface in non-promiscuous mode, and measures IP bandwidth usage. After the specified number of seconds, the average throughput is printed at total, input and output usage.

  
  


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  Bandwidth Vista 1.0.0.8 -- Bandwidth Vista is modern, informative and intuitive to use. Whether you are looking for network problems or simply want to check the speed of your Internet connection Bandwidth Vista is for you. Bandwidth Vista monitors all your connected interfaces at once and holds a history of transfers, which can be viewed down to the minute. This dynamic application also indicates the countries of remote computers con.

  
  


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  Bandwidth Monitor 2 -- An ideal tool for the bandwidth conscious, Bandwidth Monitor enables you to keep a close eye on the amount of bandwidth accumulated over the current hour, day, week, month, or even year! Advanced logging tools make it easy to view your bandwidth usage and make alterations to bandwidth logs. Clean up old data at the touch of a button, and import your bandwidth data from our predecessor Bandwidth Monitor 1.0. Version 2 adds Vista compatibility.

  
  


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  Axence NetTools 3.2 -- NetWatch - network monitoring with e-mail alerting, real-time & historical charts of response time & packet lost. WinTools lists exhaustive system information from Windows computers: running processes & services, registry, event log, disk, memory & CPU information. Port scanner checks for all open ports and running services.

  
  


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  BitMeter 3.5.7 -- BitMeter 2 is a bandwidth meter, it allows you to visually monitor your Internet connection by displaying a scrolling graph that shows your upload and download speed over time. Features include: Graphical and numerical displays of historical data, Web interface, alerts, stopwatch, calculator, transparent/float/click-through modes, 36-page help file, audio notifications, configurable color-schemes and many other options. Version 3.5.7 offers minor fixes and feature enhancements.

  
  

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These are just a few that I could find to better keep track of your bandwidth.  These haven't been tested but should get your started in the right directions.  If you have any good suggestions by all means let me know!!

Turn Thunderbird into the Ultimate Gmail IMAP Client

Gmail's IMAP support roll-out this week had nerds all atwitter about the possibility of synchronized email access across devices, computers, and clients. IMAP is far superior to regular old POP for fetching your messages and maintaining your folder list whether you're on your iPhone, office or home computer. If IMAP's got you curious but you're not sure what desktop application to use with Gmail, consider the extensible, fast, cross-platform and free Mozilla Thunderbird, our beloved Firefox's little sibling. Here's how to get the full Gmail experience in Thunderbird with IMAP.

A good article on the Google Imap support for Thunderbird!! There is much more to the article. It's basically a HOW-TO but it is a good one!!

A Better Way to Set Up Gmail IMAP

If you've set up Gmail IMAP using Google's instructions, you may have noticed a couple of snags—namely that your Sent Mail, Drafts, and Deleted Mail aren't necessarily matching up as you'd expect between your email client and Gmail. To remedy this, you'll have to tweak a few advanced configuration settings in your client, and weblog 5ThirtyOne has the details. On the iPhone, for example:

1. Open 'Settings' > 'Mail' > [Your Gmail IMAP account] > 'Advanced'
2. Select 'Drafts Mailbox' > 'On the Server' > '[Gmail] Drafts'. Return to the 'Advanced' view.
3. Select 'Sent Mailbox' > 'On the Server' > '[Gmail] Sent Mail'. Return to the 'Advanced' view.
4. Select 'Deleted Mailbox' > 'On the Server' > '[Gmail] Trash'. Return to the 'Advanced' view.

If you prefer your deleted email client messages to archive in Gmail rather than go to the trash (which seems like a more Gmail-like solution), there's one change.

Rather than mapping your Trash folder to Gmail's Trash, you'll want to select the "All Mail" mailbox—effectively removing the email from your inbox but not deleting it from your Gmail account altogether.

This is for the Ipod Touch and the Iphone. I thought people would like to know how to setup the GMAIL on them!!

Google Adds IMAP to Gmail, World Rejoices

f you are a Gmail user, head over to your account settings and select "Forwarding and POP/IMAP" to enable the newly added IMAP access option. If you don't know what the Internet Message Access Protocol is, this system allows you to access mail directly on the Google servers instead of downloading it to your computer. That way, if you access mail from multiple devices, your inbox and mail folders will look the same from every one of them. Gmail's IMAP setup page includes tutorials for Outlook, Apple Mail, Windows Mail, Thunderbird, and, you guessed it, the iPhone. [Thanks John and everyone who sent this]

I'll have to start using this. I bet everyone else is going to too!!