Looking for something to monitor an Internet Shared Connection in Windows XP

Question

If someone knows any software with these features:

• Works from the tray area
• Very lightweight
• Works also in Windows XP (preferably workstation, nothing serverish required)
• Can show a bandwidth usage graph, where I can easily see each PC's usage
• I can inspect a computer's connections, find out the ports and applications that are using them (eg, all bandwidth is consumed by PC #3, that's running uTorrent.exe from port 33003)

...I'd happily check it out. I'm only sharing my connection with (at most) four computers - I'd prefer not having to add hardware or reinstall my system.

Answer 1

Perhaps Microsoft Network Monitor 3.3 would work if you played around with it?

Answer 2

You could use wireshark for some in depth analysis.

Answer 3

May be useful

• DUMeter http://www.dumeter.com/
• TMerer http://tmeter.ru/tmeter/ (i found only russian site, but english interface presented) (for up to 3 filters free) tmtAnalyser - http://tmeter.ru/tmanlog/ allow analyse detail tmeter log.

Network analysers (sniffer) is good for troubleshooting. But collect too detail information for continous usage.

Answer 4

Use Spiceworks. It is free and I am pretty sure it can do everything you want so long as you have SNMP turned on at all of your switches.