Recommended Bandwidth Monitor

I searched this newsgroup for reference to monitoring the bandwidth and the
activity of the internet connection. BMextreme was mentioned and I have
checked that site. I interpret that it is not fully freeware at the moment.
My search only produced postings up to 2003 in Google.
My issue is that recently my Satellite hook-up coming in through a D-Link
router suddenly stops incoming. I can ping and I can FTP but mail would not
arrive nor would websites show up. It returned to normal behaviour within a
few hours. This happened again a day later and it was a 24 hour time frame
and then with no intervention from me it started up again. The tech dept of
the Server really didn't have an explanation. Of course, this was over the
New Year's weekend so it could have been an overload of traffic. The e-mail
and outgoing Log I started indicated that I was connecting to the server but
time out would result. All spyware software up to date and scans produced
zero results. The one clue that indicated things were not happening is that
the Zone Alarm icon was not flickering. The icon for the wireless Satellite
hook-up reported it was connected and operational.

I wondered if there was an efficient utility software (in addition to
BMextreme) that monitors this traffic and gives a read out that establishes
if there is actually a connection on an incoming basis anyway.

Rose W

PingLog
http://www.securitysoftware.cc/apps.html
PingLog - Does you ISP Suck? Some of my clients had intermittent
connectivity problems with
their ISP. The support guys kept coming out but never found a
problem. (Funny how it always
worked when they were there.) I wrote this program to create detailed
logs of the connectivity
problems. Their attitude changed as soon as I sent them the log.

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NicMeter
http://www.pricelesswarehome.org/ac...andwidthMonitor
http://www.nicmeter.com/NicM00241.exe
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