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Advanced Host Monitor 11.74 Enterprise File Size: 30 MB Advanced Host Monitor is a professional network monitoring tool that comes packed with a multitude of tests, alert modes, powerful report manager and log analyser, and remote monitoring capabilities. Although it bundles many dedicated parameters, the layout is clean and straightforward. Advanced Host Monitor gives users the possibility to start or pause the monitoring process, enable or disable the notifications, and select from various network tests, related to Ping operations (for testing the reachability of a host on an IP network), tracing tests, as well as email (SMTP, POP3, IMAP) and web (HTTP, URL, SOAP/XML) tests. What's more, you can collect information about the free drive space, CPU usage, memory, NT event logs, traffic monitor, and many others. ​ Other important feature worth mentioning enable you to perform searches, view a list with potential problems detected on the network, generate HTML, DBF, TXT, and WML reports containing detailed data about the entire monitoring process, and schedule tasks. Last but not least, you can monitor any TCP device, set up notifications (display warning messages, send alerts to a specified email address or mobile phone number, execute external programs), and view the log files which contain useful data about the performed operations and possible errors. During our testing we have noticed that Advanced Host Monitor carries out a test quickly and without errors throughout the entire process.

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To sum it up, Advanced Host Monitor bundles a handy set of tools for helping you perform network monitoring operations in a professional way. On the downside, the layout is not very intuitive and rookies may spend some time trying to configure the dedicated parameters.

When my laptop is turned on, it starts downloading from the Internet – BUT – nothing is supposed to be downloading! How do I figure out what’s happening? My normal response for this type of problem is to turn to, a free SysInternals utility from Microsoft. The problem is that it’s a pretty geeky tool, and requires a little patience and understanding to get useful results. Of late, I’ve found myself firing up a completely different utility included in Windows 7 and 8 to monitor network activity.

It’s a utility that quickly displays a lot of information about what’s going on. It actually can monitor several areas of your computer’s activity, but I’ll focus here on networking. Become a and go ad-free! Perfmon Perfmon, the system performance monitor, has been around for a long time. If you run “perfmon” (Windows Key + “R”, enter “perfmon”, click OK) you’ll end up with something similar to this. It’s a fairly intimidating application, unless you’re well-versed in Windows technical details, so it’s decidedly not what I’m recommending here.

In the descriptive text in the upper pane, you’ll see a link that says “Open Resource Monitor”. Click that – it’s the tool that we want. Resource Monitor Resource Monitor is really just a process monitor with a different interface. In fact, if instead of running “perfmon”, you run “perfmon /res” (without the quotes), you come directly to this interface. Resource Monitor is probably somewhere between Task Manager and our old friend in complexity, with just a hint of thrown in.

(Yes, all these similar sounding names can be quite confusing.) As I said, I’m going to focus on using Resource Monitor to monitor network activity. Click on the Network tab. Here you’ll find several panes of information about the network activity happening on your machine. Let’s review the three most interesting. Network Activity Graph At the top of the right-hand column, you’ll see this graph, which shows the average network traffic total for the last 60 seconds. Be forewarned that the scale will change automatically based on traffic. In the example above, the scale is 10mbps, or 10 megabits per second, and the graph peaks at around the 4mbps range.

If the traffic slows for long enough, the scale will change to 100kbps, or even 10kbps, so that even at lower traffic rates, the spikes of traffic can be viewed. It’ll also scale higher should network traffic exceed 10mbps long enough.

The important thing to realize is that you need to pay attention to the scale to understand how much data is being transferred. Processes with Network Activity This pane lists the processes that are actively doing some kind of network I/O (input/output). The column headers can be clicked to sort by their contents, and I find sorting by Total to be the most interesting. In the example above, we can see that chrome.exe – the Google Chrome browser – was performing the most networked I/O on the system when the snapshot was taken, followed by Dropbox, and Thunderbird and others. Network Activity I find this perhaps the most useful network pane. Listed here are the processes that have network activity, and remote endpoints to which they are connected. Not shown above (but off to the right) are the same Send/Receive/Total bytes columns, so you can see which connection is generating the most traffic.

In the example above, the most active connection is to an IP address: 67.201.31.35. A shows that this IP address belongs to “NETDNA”, the content distribution network that I use for Ask Leo! Indeed, I was downloading an Ask Leo! Page with images to generate example traffic. You can see additional connections to “cotendo.net”, another content distribution network, “1e100.net”, which turns out to be Google (I have Google sites open in my browser, and the example page that I used to generate traffic includes Google services), and “lw3.pugetsoundsoftware.com”, which is the server currently housing Ask Leo! TCP connections This pane lists all of the TCP network connections that have been established by applications running on your PC, whether or not they are actively transmitting or receiving data.

This can be useful to examine what programs are connecting where out on the internet. TCP Connections Graph This graph shows the number of connections being made between your machine and others across the network, over time. Like the Network Activity graph, it also auto-scales, so do watch the maximum number shown to get a sense for exactly what the graph is showing you. Summary Resource Monitor’s network monitoring pane provides a very quick and informative window to monitor network activity happening on your machine. While it won’t tell you what files are being downloaded (you’ll still need for that – see the related links), it will tell you what remote sites your computer is connected to, and which of the applications on your machine are responsible for network traffic. Those two bits of information alone can often resolve many of the questions that you might have about what’s happening on your machine. Process Monitor is a powerful tool and it can be used to track down exactly what program on your machine is responsible for internet activity.

Resource Monitor is a helpful little system resource examination tool that doesn't get nearly the press it deserves. I'll review what it can do. Unexplained disk activity turns out to be fairly easy to identify with the right tools. We'll use Process Monitor to track disk activity.

Are you finding mysterious downloads coming into your computer? It may be nothing sinister.

But on the other hand. We'd better check the source. Posted: March 20, 2015 in: Shortlink: TAGS:. Although good advice, I do know this, but I feel what people are really after is a lightweight “sentry” in the taskbar that provides a little information about realtime activity.

What would be nice would be a notice on hover pop-up what application the requests and traffic are coming from. Why oh why in 2015 Microsoft dont have a tool to do that is not surprising when you see the mess that windows 8 is though.

Microsoft with all thier money have absolutely dropped the ball and soon I feel will lose thier dominance because thier products are feeling heavy old and missing the mark. Great tool, thank you! Unfortunately i’m looking for some info as far as TOTAL network traffic, over time. For example, this resource monitor gives network traffic in Bytes per second, so I can see that streaming Groove Salad in Winamp is taking up 32k B/secbut is there a method other than calculating it myself or some software I could use to find out how much bandwidth has been used by Winamp since I started streaming 2 hours ago? Or to find out how much total bandwidth my last game of League of Legends took, for examples?

This was perfect. My internet slowed down to a crawl all of the sudden last week. When the service guy came from our internet provider he couldn’t find any issue with the lines.

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We tried everything to fix the issue, turning off all other devices except the main desktop, rebooting the modem, checking for IP address conflicts, nothing worked. Then I realized I needed to Ask Leo. Running the performance monitor showed that my back-up system on the main computer was the culprit.

Last week I marked several files full of pictures for back up so it’s trying to do an 25G back up over 1.5mps bandwidth internet connection. How do I find the ports when the activity does not show up in resource monitor?

It does show up in process explorer under “network other” but there is no port information and absolutely no one has an explanation of what “network other” is. Firewall locked down, or off I have the same activity, usually it either SYSTEM or one of the hundred plus svchosts, now I’m seeing a lot more of this activity that I’ve grown so accustomed to and have been so frustrated by I have had people suggest it is “bounceback” but I have the firewall logging everything, it is simply out going. I have a lot of events in powershell all of which say the task catagory are “execute remote command” and it is a brandnew format and install of windows 10 pro, configured NOT to allow remote connections, all remote services are disabled, yet they are found running in task manager anyway. I find the hidden.pbk in appdata modifed quite often I guess this something to with microsoft because I took ownership of everything pbk in the registry my I was no longer able to connect to windows update. Before commenting please:.

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