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Which is the Best Freeware utility to monitor your bandwidth usage, when you have limited broadband usage connection in country like India, where most of us use broadband plans based on usage (like 2 GB/Month or 5 GB /6 Months) instead of unlimited ones ? To monitor your bandwidth usage, without any tool would require you to visit your service providers account to see the usage stats, that also would be not updated to the current time (delayed by around 2 hours). So, it is better to use the freeware utility to monitor bandwidth usage. One of the best freeware utility today available over the internet to monitor bandwidth usage is NetWorx by Softperfect.

This bandwidth usage monitoring utility is free, easy to use, yet powerful enough to calculate your bandwidth usage based on the objective or limits set via you (as per the usage plan subscribed by the user). You can use it to collect bandwidth usage data and measure the speed of your Internet or any other network connection. You can identify the network problems, keep a check on bandwidth limits, get alerts on when your specified bandwidth usage is completed and even track down suspicious network activity characteristic of Trojan horses and hacker attacks.

Major features of NexWorx includes :

1. Clear graphic and/or numeric display.
2. Usage reports with export to a variety of file formats, including Excel, MS Word and HTML.
3. Permits close supervision of uploads and downloads.
4. Works with dial-up, ISDN, cable modems, ADSL, Ethernet cards, and more.
5. Includes network information & testing tools with advanced netstat that displays applications using your Internet connection.
6. Scalable to your own modem download capabilities.
7. Option to notify user or disconnect from the Internet automatically when network activity exceeds a certain level.
8. Speed meter to accurately time downloads and report the average transfer rates.
9. Dial-up session journal with detailed information about every session.
10. Absolutely free and does not contain any adware/spyware/malware.
11. Find out and monitor how fast your Internet connection is.
12. Find out and monitor how much Internet traffic you consume.
13. Verify whether your ISP charges your Internet usage fairly.
14. Detect a suspicious network activity on your computer.
15. Perform simple network tests such as ping and trace route.
16. Be notified about excessive Internet usage.

As mentioned above, it is really easy to use, right-click on the Networx system tray , provide you with the program menu and left-click provides you with instant usage graph in the real time. One of the other benefits is its portable version, which can be very handy, when you are using some wireless limited plan on the go, which requires not installation and same capability as the standard installer.

You can download a copy of windows bandwidth monitor utility : Networx  via Official Homepage or Direct download link. If you are interested in using the Networx in some different language other then English, you can download Networx language pack also.

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