NetMeter is a powerful and easy-to-use bandwidth meter. It monitors traffic of all network connections and displays real-time graphical and numerical data transfer rates. NetMeter can display detail of multiple network connections at the same time. It records all network traffic and includes extensive logging. NetMeter works with virtually all types of network connections including phone modems, DSL, cable modem, LAN, satellite and more.

This application scans for network interfaces and adapters installed in system and their monitoring. Detailed info for every interface is provided. Every interface monitor has simple statistics view and graphic display with time history.

When NetMeter starts it stays on top of other windows awaiting your right mouse click in its window area. The first stop you want to make is the Option menu. You will notice that you have quite a load of features to choose from to make NetMeter measure what you want and present it to you as you want. Besides of the window properties (stay on top, show caption, snap to edges, transparency, etc.) you can also influence background, colors fonts and grid to fit your taste. Besides of the colored graph (shonwing upload, download and total as overlay bars) you can also display current and total DL/UL values as text.

The second stop you want to make is the Totals submenu. The traffic that has been measured so far is presented to you broken down to daily, weekly and monthly statistics. This is a very nice feature if you want to double-check against you Internet provider's bill. Nicely done is NetMeters projection of your estimated future usage based on the traffic you caused so far. NetMeter deteced all 22 physical and logical network devices in my PC running Windows Vista. This is amazingly good compared to a whole bunch of other tools not even detecting one. If you like you can only select your Bluetooth device and just measure how much traffic you use for sending ring tones to your mobile phone.

The license of this software is Freeware, you can free download and free use this network monitoring software.