BWMeter 4.0.1

Publisher's Description:

BWMeter is a powerful bandwidth meter and monitor which measures and displays all traffic on your network. It can analyze the data packets (where they come from, where they go, which port and protocol they use). This makes it possible to distinguish between local and internet traffic for example. It can create statistics for all computers in your network, measuring and displaying all internal network traffic as well as download and upload from the internet. You can even define filters which show your transfer with certain Internet addresses. It is ideal for home users to get an overview of how much bandwidth they use, as well as small to large businesses, where one computer can maintain the statistics of downloaded / uploaded data of all computers in the network. The product is easy to configure and offers a rich set of options and features for beginners as well as experts and network administrators.

Latest Changes:

• Fix: problem with reappearing filters and graphs
• Fix: checked user interface items displayed incorrectly
• Fix: various small internal improvements and bug fixes

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Latest User Reviews:

Reviewer:	ajua	Oct 16, 2007
Version:	3.3.0
The best traffic monitor. The graphs are the best of all traffic monitors. Net Meter is free but the graphs are really ugly. The price of this one is a little bit high but it is the best out there. Note: i can get this to work in vista. Windows freezes when booting up. Maybe it is a conflict Kaspersky Internet Security and BWMeter.
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Reviewer:	aruprc	Sep 18, 2007
Version:	3.2.2
Nice program but Net Meter does it all and for free. $30 is a bit too high for a program like this.
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Reviewer:	ISR	Apr 7, 2006
Version:	2.4.2
Nice features and interface, but the main reason it's ahead of most of the other meters is the fact that it allows you to track local and internet traffic seperately (as mentioned prev). However the price is simply too high given that many of the free meters are similar and adding the ability to track traffic seperately should not be that hard. I don't know why I havent seen any that do... BWmeter simply does it by adding a filter to seperate between local ip range 192.168.xxx.xxx and everything else. Can't be that hard to do... If you don't mind a clunkier interface and installing .NET you can track internet only traffic with NET Traffic Meter by adding your local ips to the exclude list.
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Reviewer:	kashin	May 17, 2005
Version:	2.3.1
If you're connected to a router like me, this program can be extremely useful to you. Like httpd.confused pointed out, it can separately measure LAN (local) and Internet traffic on the same network interface. Something most other utilities of this nature cannot do. I have been using DU Meter for nearly 4 years and recently switched to BWMeter, simply because DU Meter cannot distinguish between local and internet traffic. However, I do agree this utility is on the pricey side. Lately I have noticed a trend in shareware getting more and more expensive.
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Reviewer:	httpd.confused	Dec 6, 2004
Version:	2.2.1
I love it when people see a shareware product that merely looks similar to an existing (but cheaper) product, on the surface, and then automatically--and mindlessly--assign a low rating to it. Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. In fact, NetMeter doesn't hold a candle to BWMeter. The latter utility can show actual traffic on LAN and/or internet connections, show LAN and/or internet graphs, and more--things that the other utiltiies mentioned can't do. I do think that, despite the respectable feature set, the price of BWMEter is a bit over the top. DeskSoft has always had that habit, with all of their utilities. Personally, I tried it, and decided that it wasn't for me, since I already have DU Meter and CommView.
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