NetLimiter - Ultimate Bandwidth Controller and Monitoring Tool

NetLimiter is one of the must-have software to control Bandwidth. Although the main feature in NetLimiter is to control the Internet traffic, but my favorite feature is actually the traffic monitoring. I can easily see what IP address is a process is connecting to and how much bandwidth it is using. Most of the free network/internet monitoring tools can only tell you the total bandwidth usage, but not for individual process. This is very useful for example, when Steam is updating the software and it takes really long with only progress meter showing the update percentage but not the speed. After waited for a few hours, the update is still running and you have no idea how fast is Steam downloading.

With NetLimiter, you can know whether the update is really huge or the server is slow in sending the updates to you. Other than that, you can easily know which process is secretly connecting to the Internet which is a good way to know if you are part of a zombie botnet. Interestingly, I installed a keylogger on my test computer that hides itself using rootkit method which will not show up on Task Manager. When the keylogger software send the logs via email, the hidden process shows up in NetLimiter 3 Monitor.

There are some services that run in the background and access the internet which consumes our bandwidth, so if you want to find out what services or processes in your system are connecting to the internet then this tool can help.

With NetLimiter you can, not only find out the processes connecting to the internet but also restrict their usage to some extent. NetLimiter 3 has been released which is the latest version available as of now. The tool is available in Pro, Lite and Monitor variants which you can download from the location below.

Download NetLimiter 3