WatchWAN for Windows

By Genesys Softwares
Free
User Rating

Key Details of WatchWAN

Display all active connections and capture and monitor selected bandwidth.
Last updated on April 6, 2020
There have been 3 updates
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Virus scan status:
Clean (it's extremely likely that this software program is clean)

Editors' Review

Download.com staffApril 6, 2020

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.

WatchWAN for Windows

By Genesys Softwares
Free
User Rating

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Full Specifications

GENERAL

Release: April 20, 2006

Latest update: April 6, 2020

Version: 1.0.0.1

OPERATING SYSTEMS

Platform: Windows

Operating System

Windows NT
Windows 2000
Windows XP
Windows 10

Additional Requirements: Windows NT/2000/XP/2003 Server

POPULARITY

Total Downloads: 52,379

Downloads Last Week: 0

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3/5

23 User Votes

Crap program
pietpetoorsFebruary 20, 2013
Pros
No idea what is good about this.
Cons
The piece of crap loads SearcYa as home page on my browser and default search engine in my browser. I do not like if software think they can install stuff on my computer without asking first
Summary
Dont install it
Could not even install on Vista
Lee70043September 13, 2012
Pros
I would not know since it did not install
Cons
I would not know since it did not install
Summary
No start up and no unload program.
Didn't even open
danclegAugust 23, 2012
Pros
It's free.
Cons
Errors, wouldn't open
Summary
After installing the program, I attempted to open it and got an error message about ActiveX missing (which I have the current version for). The error kept the program from opening, so I wasn't able to try it.
It doesn't run on my Win7 x64
nata_ctoJuly 29, 2012
Pros
No Pros. See Cons
Cons
When it starts it gives message that an object didn't load. Then when i try to click on anything...it crashes. Re-installs did not help and I have a very clean system.
Summary
Useless little junk.
It worked when not frozen
I_dont_want_a_usernameFebruary 13, 2012
Pros
Monitored network usage as I wanted.
Cons
Would freeze anytime I'd click on it when I didn't have it in the foreground. Would take 2-5 minutes to unfreeze.
Summary
I guess it'd have been great (if not the perfect answer to what I am looking for) if its constant freezing issue hadn't existed.
Great utility but could use help file
sbheckJanuary 7, 2012
Pros
It worked for 12 months without a hitch and gave me all the information I needed along with a log of each days download usage-with NO Problems.
Cons
In mid December, the program window came up like normal but registered NO activity for several days although I was using the internet constantly. I uninstalled the program and downloaded and installed it again. However the new installation does not register any internet activity
Summary
I'm using it on windows XP pro. Any ideas as to how to make it work would be appreciated. sbheck1929@hotmail.com
Windows 7 ERROR reading network
JseplinJune 23, 2011
Pros
Don't know
Cons
Can't read network card or won't show it
Summary
Accurate, Useful, and helps identify shared usage hogs.
SteveD85020243April 5, 2009
Pros
With a whole family of internet users, no-one seems to know where the account download quota has disappeared to each month. I was considering an expensive router with byte counts per port. This utility does better by counting WAN and not LAN.
Cons
Nice as is, but I really would like the log to do an AM/PM split to see our peak/off-peak quota usage. Being able to minimize the stopwatch would be nice. Being able to dump the log to a file (name based on IP addr or MAC addr) would be excellent.
Summary
The author is to be commended for this fine piece of engineering. It is a tool for a specific task that most of us come up against. I have used Ethereal to diagnose some very tricky problems and understand the parentage of this program. Paired down to basics, WatchWAN does what it says and measures the internet traffic to and from the installed workstation that is destined for the internet. It does not have a help or about menu items, or any identifiable command line parameters. Just an instruction or two, or perhaps a URL to reference would have helped me a little. Even so it solved most of my problems with accounting for internet quota usage. We are still on an AM/PM split usage plan that has an off-peak/peak quota measured separately so being able to log that kind of usage directly to a file as a CSV format would allow charting with a spreadsheet. I would pay ten bucks for shareware that did that. Free as is, the author has given us an excellent gift.
Excellent free software.
June 6, 2008
Pros
It keeps track of how much you download. Very important now with bandwidth caps coming in the future.
Cons
Summary
BEWARE!!!PLS HELP!!!
deathcodesMarch 20, 2008
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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Developer's Description

By Genesys Softwares

Display all active connections and capture and monitor selected bandwidth.

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.