With increasing number of ISP’s all over the world the number of users using high speed internet connection have risen tremendously. Almost all of the networks in developed nations are high speed. But for people like us who live in developing nation its still a distant dream. Though there has been developments, many of us now have the luxury of Broadband services yet there is a huge chunk of crowd still using over laden GPRS or dial up services. Everyone who has ever used these networks have craved for one and only one thing bandwidth; which indeed is scarce. Moreover whatever we have is also not used optimally. Much of the bandwidth we use, if not optimized, is wasted. When we are sitting in front of our terminals and hoping that the page we requested is opened, actually part of our data band is only used to serve us. This problem hurts most when we are a slow network user. Moreover if we are downloading a large file and want to check our mail we might have to wait forever to do so because the download might be eating all our bandwidth.
The best solution to this problem is to use some application to monitor and regulate the data bandwidth used by the applications present in system. One such application is NetLimiter. It can be categorized as client side traffic shaping and monitoring application. Certainly its job is not just the one mentioned above. It has many other roles to play not just being a distributer. NetLimiter comes as three different packages freeware, Lite and Pro. NetLimiter free is just a monitor and its job is to monitor the bandwidth consumed by various applications. Lite and Pro versions are advanced and can be used to shape the bandwidth allocated. The Pro version is accompanied with a firewall which works to expectations.
NetLimiter Pro is way more than it looks. It has the ability to direct internet usage to multiple computers if put on a gateway. Unlike some other proxy applications it can regulate the inbound and outbound traffic in terms of bandwidth not in terms of connections per host. It has a permission editor by which one can allocate the resources required by the applications. Moreover it has the ability to control the traffic three different zones: Internet, My Computer and Local Network.
Broadband users have often complained about they exceeding the usage limit. This application keeps a record of the data transaction that took place on a day to day basis and can be used to keep a check on the data transmitted and received.
Another very important feature for professionals is the ability to administer the functioning of application remotely via their browsers.
The bad part of all this is its price is quite high considering its requirement. Though a recommended application, one should check on with their pockets.
Those looking for a freeware alternative will be disappointed as there is none. Though there are some alternatives such as cFosSpeed.
Download trial and freeware from http://www.netlimite r.com/download.php
Download cFosSpeed from http://www.cfos.de/download/download_e.htm