How to measure bandwidth usage using NetLimiter Monitor

Posted June 8th, 2009. Categorized under Computers. 9 Comments

If your ISP has strict bandwidth limits, or if you’re simply curious about how much Internet traffic you use, you might have considered installing a program that can monitor how much you upload/download.

I hunted around a while trying to find a decent program that could properly monitor my usage from day to day and overall. Finally, I found one — NetLimiter Monitor. And it’s free!

Sample NetLimiter screen

I’ve been using NetLimiter since last June and I’ve been happy. Since all I needed was something that let me see my usage from day to day, month to month, and year to year, I didn’t want a fancy program. NetLimiter is simple and effective at monitoring how much I upload and download, and only uses about 15 MB of RAM.

The company offers other programs that can limit the bandwidth used by each program, though these programs do cost.

Fun fact: I’ve download 310 GB since June 2008!

If you liked this post, please share it!

Want more? Subscribe today!

Readers of this post also liked...

9 Replies to “How to measure bandwidth usage using NetLimiter Monitor”

Comments:

1. Simon from Wordpress Gallery Theme

June 18th, 2009 5:52 pm

Very useful tool if your ISP caps bandwidth or charges for etc bandwidth. Cheers.

2. Ste from free MP3 player

June 20th, 2009 11:54 am

This is a great little gadget, thanks for sharing. My ISP limits my connection speed once I hit a certain bandwidth limit so this is really useful.

3. tomochan from Free Business Cards

June 23rd, 2009 12:41 pm

nifty little program! very nice and useful. not to mention its also very detailed.

4. peter from cheap uk broadband

June 28th, 2009 10:20 am

That’sgreat!

I presume this would work with a mobile broadband connection? Would you be able to isolate each connection so, say if you used the office or home wifi most of the time, and also mobile broadband whilst out and about, could you see the bandwidth for each connection?

That way you could avoid hefty charges for going over the bandwidth allowance on your mobile broadband!

5. Paul

June 28th, 2009 11:39 am

@Peter: I’m not sure if it can display different stats based on your connection, but you could easily disable it when at home so that it’s only monitoring your mobile bandwidth usage.

6. Andy from deals

October 22nd, 2009 6:04 am

@ Paul, re your reply to Peter…

Would you be able to perhaps have a seperate windows login for when you are on mobile broadband, and then install the program on this login seperately, selecting ‘Only Me’ when you are asked who should have permission to use the program?

Thus giving you 2 sets of stats? – Would that work

7. Paul

October 22nd, 2009 12:53 pm

@Andy: I suppose you could, though that seems a bit roundabout of a way of doing it.

8. Chris from Bathroom Wall Cabinets

October 22nd, 2009 10:06 pm

This is a great tool. I just downloaded and use it on a daily basis. It’s kinda cool to see how much bandwith is used up on a daily basis.

9. kristy from sim only deals

March 2nd, 2010 2:52 am

Many thanks for the post Net Limiter Monitor is wonderful free tools to keep records your upload and download data, and its free. I already download it. very useful. Now I can keep watch and not to exceed the data transfer limits.