Comments on: NetWorx – free portable network traffic monitor

By: Rarst

Rarst — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 08:19:05 +0000

@CHOPPERGIRL Yep, as discussed in comments above it's not really designed for that. It's a tool for home user, rather than administrator.

By: CHOPPERGIRL

CHOPPERGIRL — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 00:46:50 +0000

Groan, apparently Networx does *NOT* run as a service… : see this SoftPerfect forum thread

By: CHOPPERGIRL

CHOPPERGIRL — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 00:35:45 +0000

So does Networx install also as a service? I know Netlimiter installs as a service, but how about Networx?

I tried Netlimiter but couldn’t figure out how to set a total quota, but with Networx its a snap, and you can check a checkbox as well to ingore local traffic. But does it run as a service, or do I have to actually be logged in at a desktop with it running in the traybar for it to do its job?

By: Rarst

Rarst — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 15:14:21 +0000

@Allan Yep, Comodo is my firewall of choice. It definitely could be a little better about counting traffic - those percentages in dashboard are often weird and it holds no history about traffic usage. Anyway it is a firewall after all and good one at that. :)

By: Allan

Allan — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 11:36:11 +0000

I see all connections with my firewall (comodo) more or less so use this to monitor speed and interwebs usage only. Cool app!

By: repair wii

repair wii — Sat, 18 Dec 2010 04:53:23 +0000

I agreed with Mace, this will be more useful when be use that way. This is really a great tool I will be installing when I will make my home network.

By: Mace

Mace — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 07:09:18 +0000

I’m guessing this is a perfect tool for an adult that works from home and their kids goof off, so you can see how much bandwidth is being used, slowing down everyone on the network. Great tool ;)

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Question about Uploading. - Overclock.net - Overclocking.net — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 04:04:41 +0000

[...] about Uploading. I have Networx installed to monitor my total network activity each month as to make sure I don't pass my limit. [...]

By: Rarst

Rarst — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:34:40 +0000

@Bitstar

Some people (me included) hate to mess with install and uninstall. :) From portable I get to run tool from flashdrive and instantly see how is traffic consumed. I get tool that runs on any PC with any degree of user rights.

networkx had to be installed

There are two downloads provided by developer, one for installer lovers and other simply archive. :)

By: Bitstar

Bitstar — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:36:12 +0000

Making a software portable just so you don’t have to press uninstall when you are done with it is just an excuse to get away with inferior software that is much easier to make. A windows service can be removed just as easily as it was created. The uninstaller should gracefully handle that.

What exactly do you gain with a portable traffic monitoring tool other then easy uninstalling when your isp removes your traffic limit? I don’t know…but I know what you don’t get :P

Besides…networkx had to be installed so there goes the portability excuse :)