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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows NT, Windows XP, Windows 2000
- Date added: April 19, 2006
- Total Downloads: 32,341
- Downloads last week: 104
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 18 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
This application effectively monitors and logs your bandwidth, but will not return accurate results unless you alter a select setting. WatchWAN's small tabbed interface is well designed to display pertinent data. This utility monitors TCP, UDP, and ICMP traffic, though each can be easily set to ignore. Current speed is displayed in a scrolling bar graph that can be frozen, but not enlarged. The packet display features the From and To IP addresses for each packet, along with the port, type, and amount of data transferred. The ability to scroll the packets display is available in WatchWan's settings. Scrolling helps users note select IP addresses to better discover hidden spyware or match URL to IP address. The log display merely lists the total data transferred per day broken down into upload, download, and pass-by usage. The utility does not include a needed help file, but offers a link to the publisher's Web site. On the site is a brief mention of a required setting to accurately measure usage. Novices will have little need for this helpful freeware application, but power users will find it one of the better bandwidth monitors available.Publisher's description
From Genesys Softwares :WatchWAN is a more accurate alternative to DU Meter, Netmeter and other bandwidth monitors. Unlike others, it allows you to set filters to capture only the traffic you are interested in. It shows all the active connections you have to the Internet at any given moment and also the volume of traffic flowing through them. Of course, keeps an exact record of your bandwidth usage too.
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- Average user rating: 3.7 stars out of 18 votes
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Version: WatchWAN 1.0.0.1
Pros: Get to control traffic
Cons: Don`t show in the tray
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4 out of 5 people found this review helpful
Version: WatchWAN 1.0.0.1
"I didn't install it because it requires WinPcap 3.1"
Pros: Well, it's free. I didn't actually use the app, since it tried to install WinPcap 3.1 (which I didn't want).
Cons: Any version of WinPcap prior to 4.0.1 is vulnerable to intrusion. WatchWAN's installer pushes WinPcap 3.1b4. Google WinPcap & iDefense, the security advisory should be the second link there.
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Version: WatchWAN 1.0.0.1
Pros: It keeps track of how much you download. Very important now with bandwidth caps coming in the future.
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: WatchWAN 1.0.0.1
Pros: at first iam amaze coz it records all the ports and ip's that iam connected!! BUT!!!
Cons: BUT!!! after a few minute's this software ruined my internet connection setting and it insist to use an IP address not registered in my connection! my broadband network connection tells me that iam not connected in the internet BUT the watchman icon at the lower right with 2 monitor screens like my broadband connection says that iam connected! the watchman programs connects and sends unknown data's somewhere! i tried to manually configure my connections by entering the IP etc etc and i entered them correctly BUT still i cant connect my broadband internet connection! and when i click the REPAIR in my broadband connection tools the watchman etc keeps on putting a different ip!!! i disconnect my internet hub and i unstalled the watchman program...BUT the Netson etc i dont remember the exact name is still on my connection tools with the options internet protocols, Qos packets scheduler etc and then i unstall the Netson etc and when i use the FIND tool in my computer i typed WinCap the ones it wanted to install the second option when you first intall this program the wincap thing...it says theres no files that goes by that name...BUT! when i use FIND tool again and i type win the WinCap folder showed and when i opend it, it says GHOST INSTALLER etc!!!!!! OMG!!! iam not even sure that my pc is still SAFE!!!!! pls help me any idea how to clean my pc??? i cant use the FORMAT option i cant reformat my pc! huhuhuh pls help
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: WatchWAN 1.0.0.1
Pros: All in all a great idea. The statistics come through well and the idea is good. I like that you can change the graph mode and the filter idea. Needs work as explained below.
Cons: First, this program doesn't seem to have a way to set a polling interval (very very important IMO) - this was the reason I uninstalled it - it actually took CPU to run this (which is silly).
Secondly, it simply needs more options. The filtering is cool but not very well explained. I hope to see the future releases still free with more options.
Another thought, a cool taskbar system would be good. Choosable icons and graphs would be good for the taskbar and such. An option to have 3 different taskbar windows would be sweet also, perhaps even with their own polling intervals... the 3 taskbar icons could be set to different things you wanted to poll... upload, download, average, totals for each... why not just make it dynamic and have as many taskbar icon graphs as you want with different settings and colors for each...
OH and one last thing this needs... an always on top skinnable / transparent-able click-through graph!
Final thought: Wait to download this till it's more mature. :-)
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