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Freemeter - keep tabs on your network connection
by Grant Robertson Mar 15th 2007 at 5:00PM
Better still, there's no installer and nothing complicated to configure. Freemeter can either hang out on your desktop in fully opaque or variably transparent trim or stay hidden away in your system tray for easy access. Also built in to this clever little utility is a simple traceroute and ping console, as well as the ability to act as a notifier for a single Pop3 or IMAP email account. For the adventurous, the source code is available.
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The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
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john said 5:25PM on 3-15-2007
doesn't work on any of my machines; must not like domain machines.
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Gardiner Westbound said 7:52AM on 3-16-2007
I couldn't get it to work.
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piyo said 9:22AM on 3-16-2007
Freemeter works on my non-domain XP Pro SP2 x86 with all .NET stuff installed. No complains with it, it does the job.
If you can't get it to work, may I suggest a similar soft?
NetMeter 0.9.9.9 beta 2 (2004/03/02)
http://readerror.gmxhome.de/
This freeware, non-open source soft seems to have a better logging feature, very slim as a Win32 app native, but no mailing feature or web interface and no traceroute or ping, but you know tracert.exe and ping.exe already, right?
I am surprised this hasn't been on Download Squad yet.
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john said 5:41PM on 3-16-2007
update: FreeMeter works on my co-workers machine; it's identical to mine, on a domain, etc.
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