Freeware Tools: NetWorx 5.4.0

NetWorx is a utility for measuring your bandwidth usage and the speed of all kinds of wired and wireless network connections (dial-up, Ethernet, ISDN, DSL, 802.11b). The program provides the ability to measure your network throughput, graphic, numeric representation of incoming and outgoing traffic, highly customizable alerts, statistics about dial-up connection duration, weekly, daily, and monthly bandwidth usage. The application is most useful for monitoring parameters like connection speed, bandwidth usage and network testing.

Watching over the network activities and monitoring Internet connections are tasks that can be carried out with specialized tools. These jobs are usually completed by system administrators, but any user can try to take care of those and even more with the help of a software like NetWorx.

There are graphs with customizable colors and several options to choose from when it comes to usage statistics as well as for the various reports that NetWorx can generate. A very useful feature is the ability to detect any suspicious activity on the network that may originate from hacking attempts or virus activity.

If you have several network interfaces connected and several connections to watch over, NetWorx can oversee all of them or only the selected ones.

There are some sound and visual notifications that you can utilize to get alerts in case unusual network activity is detected, in addition to email notifications. Another handy function of NetWorx is the ability to cut dial-up connections and power off the system.

The powerful reporting component of the software application allows you to view the traffic graphs along with detailed bandwidth usage statistics. The reports can be easily saved in one of the compatible formats, namely Microsoft Excel, Word, CSV, TXT or HTML.

To sum things up, NetWorx offers quite a lot of features in a rather small package. Easy to use and equipped with a strong feature pack, the tool can surely be considered one of the best choices in its category.