ISP Monitor : Free Bandwidth Monitoring Tools for Windows

One should use bandwidth and Internet usage monitoring tools when your Internet Service Provider (ISP) offers a limited quota for downloading and uploading. These tools not only monitor bandwidth and Internet usage or check the speed but also detect any suspicious network activity.

ISP Monitor also allows you to check your Internet speed; after all you should get the speed you actually pay for. Moreover, it offers real-time traffic monitoring. The built-in Traffic monitor displays current network speed via 3 different graphic modes. All 3 modes can be customized to suit your requirements.

ISP Monitor displays the percentage used from your total quota and allows adjusting it before it reaches the threshold limit. For this, you need to set limits for download and upload by customizing the application’s settings. Optionally, you can choose to allow ISP Monitor to disconnect the Internet connection, once it reaches the limit.

The following providers are directly supported by ISP Monitor. If your provider is not listed, ISP Monitor will default to your Traffic Monitor statistics.

Belgium - Telenet, Belgacom, Scarlet, Tele2, EDPnet, SurfADSL, BelCenter, Euphony, Chello, Dommel, Mobistar, dxADSL, Freedomnet

Netherlands - Cistron, Solcon, Speedlinq, Xs4All, FilterNet, Kabelfoon, Zeelandnet, TU Delft, Tiscali, HetNet, HCCnet, Chello

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Free Bandwidth Monitoring and Usage Reporting Tool - NetWorx

NetWorx is a free bandwidth monitoring and usage reporting tool that is free yet powerful. The free tool lets you find out how fast your Internet connection is and monitor how much Internet traffic you consume. This, helps to an extent, verify whether your ISP charges your Internet usage fairly or not.

Apart from this, NetWorx lets you detect any suspicious network activity on your computer and be notified about excessive Internet usage.

When downloaded and installed, the program resides as an icon in system, ready to show up its menu on right-click. Its menu lets you control the utility.

The program allows you to monitor all your network connections or a specific network connection (such as Ethernet or PPP) only. 

The software also provides a system of highly customisable visual and sound alerts. You can set it up to alert you when the network connection is down or when some suspicious activity, such as unusually heavy data flow, occurs. It can also automatically disconnect all dial-up connections and shut down the system. Hence, it can save your internet bandwidth and hijacking your computer also.

By clicking left on the system tray icon you can see the current NetWorx state.

Key Features :

Clear graphic and/or numeric display.

Usage reports with export to a variety of file formats, including Excel, MS Word and HTML.

Permits close supervision of uploads and downloads.

Works with dial-up, ISDN, cable modems, ADSL, Ethernet cards, and more.

Includes network information and testing tools with advanced netstat that displays applications using your Internet connection.

Option to notify user or disconnect from the Internet automatically when network activity exceeds a certain level.

Speed meter to accurately time downloads and report the average transfer rates.

Dial-up session journal with detailed information about every session.

Absolutely free and does not contain any adware/spyware/malware.

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Cucusoft Net Guard : Software to monitor bandwidth

Cucusoft Net Guard is a freeware to monitor your broadband usage, speed up your Internet speed, kill malware who are wasting your bandwidth, provide you a monthly detail Bandwidth Usage report. It includes a small real-time floating window that indicates the real-time Internet Uploading and downloading speed.

One can even set a traffic limit per month. Cucusoft Net Guard includes a ‘Forecast’ feature that automatically calculates the projected bandwidth usage for a month. Thus, you can easily determine whether your usage will exceed the limit for that month or not.

Cucusoft Net Guard supports all versions of windows including Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 2003 Server, Windows 7, Windows 8.

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Optimize Your Internet Connection For Fastest Speed With DNS Benchmark

If you are facing the slow internet and want to speed up your Internet and to enhance your browsing experience, this article talks about optimizing your computer DNS services so that you get connected faster than ever. DNS stands for Domain Name System and is a database that contains resolutions for all the domain names present on the Internet.

To find out resolved addresses of any domain, you use a Domain Name System Service. It takes a little time before your DNS servers fetch resolved address of any URL. Only after your DNS service fetches resolution, your browser can connect to related websites.

The early days of the Internet saw only the Internet Service Providers offering DNS services. It was these companies who gave you the facility to lookup DNS resolutions before you could open related websites. As the need for faster and secure DNS arose, many companies started offering free or paid DNS services. 

When you get a new Internet service, your ISP configures your router and/or computer to use his own DNS servers. Since there are many DNS services available, it becomes difficult to check out each one manually. This is where DNS Benchmark comes in. The free tool by Gibson Research helps you to search best DNS for you.

It runs a check of pre-listed DNS services to see which ones are the fastest and where does your own DNS service stand. It also helps you create a custom list of DNS services based on your geographical location so that you can use the best ones available for you. 

Other than checking your DNS service for speed, it also checks to see if your DNS service is reliable and if it can stop redirection to custom pages. A DNS service is unreliable if it is not able to resolve domain names each time. Some DNS services redirect you to its own ad loaded page when you enter a wrong URL instead of showing you “Page Not Found” error.

There are some 50 known DNS services listed in DNS Benchmark. To run this test, click on the Nameservers tab and click Run Benchmark.

When you run this test, DNS Benchmark compares your DNS service with all these 50 DNS services and then, shows you a detailed report with data on:

1. DNS services that are not reliable for your location

2. DNS services that redirect you to a custom page

3. If your DNS servers are listed properly – in order of speed.

4. If all of your DNS servers are responding

5. DNS servers that are faster than your DNS services

Note that your DNS service refers to the DNS service you are using, currently. To know what IP addresses you are using for DNS, click on Network icon in the Windows System Tray. Click Open Networking and Sharing Center. In the window that appears, click Change Network Adaptors. In the resulting dialog, click to select your network. Right click to select Properties. In the dialog box that appears, click on IPv4 and again click on Properties. You can see your current primary and alternate DNS towards the bottom of the dialog box.

This feature of DNS Benchmark allows you to create a list of DNS servers that are optimal for your location. It checks out the different public DNS services available and sorts them in order of speed. It also marks the different rows showing the DNS servers with Red and Orange if it finds any faults with those DNS servers. It tells you the meaning of these Red and Orange DNS servers in the Conclusions tab. Based on these sorted result, you can choose to replace your current DNS service with the fastest ones available without any issues.

If you intend to change your DNS servers after running the tests, check those DNS servers for their capability to handle phishing and malware. You may run a search with the DNS owners’ name to know if they offer ample phishing protection.

For DNS Benchmark to function properly, it is necessary that it is the ONLY program using the Internet when you are running the tests. Close any applications that use Internet and then run DNS Benchmark tests.

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How to use internet through Bluetooth on computer

Every multimedia mobile comes with Bluetooth service enabled in his cell/phone. If you have lost your data cable or whatever the reason, you want to use Internet through mobile Bluetooth connection then you are on the right place. You need Bluetooth in your laptop/computer as well as mobile too. Just start Bluetooth on both device and first pair your computer Bluetooth with mobile. If you are getting pairing from computer to mobile, then install mobile PC suite in your PC and then again proceed with pairing.

Note : Operating system does not matter in this process.

If you are using Windows XP then :


  Go to Control Panel > Phone and Modem
  (if don't shows control panel click classic view ) >
  modem tab > huawei mobile connect 3g modem
  (which is present on COM ) > 
  properties advance > in extra initializing command use given
  commands and click OK 

If you are using Windows 7 then :


  Click on start menu > type phone and modem > click on it > 
  modems > huawei mobile connect 3g modem–properties >
  change settings > advance > extra initialization 
  command > use given command.



If any where you are asked for Country and area code then provide as per your country.



  Country – India 
  Area Code – 91 
  Leave other blank



Note : Area code does not matter. You can use any.



Extra initialization Commands For Modem Settings :


Aircel    – AT+CGDCONT=1,”IP”,”aircelgprs.com”


Airtel    – AT+CGDCONT=1,”IP”,”airtelgprs.com”


BSNL      – AT+CGDCONT=1,”IP”,”bsnlnet”


Idea      – AT+CGDCONT=1,”IP”,”internet”


Reliance  – AT+CGDCONT=1,”IP”,”rcomnet”


Docomo    – AT+CGDCONT=1,”IP”,”tata.docomo.internet”


Videocon  – AT+CGDCONT=1,”IP”,”vinternet.com”


Vodafone  – AT+CGDCONT=1,”IP”,”www”


Uninor    - AT+CGDCONT=1,”IP”,”uninor”

For other network provider you have to change only apn as highlighted (AT+CGDCONT=1,”IP”,”aircelgprs” ) and rest all things will be same.

Now create a new dial up connection via Network icon and put dialing number *99# and rest of all thing will be blank. Enjoy this post and if any problem then just feel free to contact.