Network monitoring

squarepegger · 7th September 2008

Is there an easy-to-use, preferably free, program that will show me which processes are sending and receiving packets to/from the internet and how many packets each process is sending/receiving? I took a look at Wireshark, but I'd rather try something simpler.

I don't want to study to become a MCNE or do 2 years of post-doctoral research in IT; I just want to see which programs are engaging in internet traffic and how much traffic they're generating.

Windows XP Pro SP3 totally up-to-date
No hardware firewall yet
RASPPPoE on ADSL supposedly 1536 Kbps down/128 Kbps up
testmy.net performance ~1370 Kbps down/ ~96 Kbps up SOMETIMES

I have good reason to believe that my PC is free from malware.

**Steve R Jones** · 7th September 2008

Might want to take a peek at this freebie:

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CurrPorts allows you to view a list of ports that are currently in use, and the application that is using it. You can close a selected connection and also terminate the process using it, and export all or selected items to a HTML or text report. Additional information includes the local port name, local/remote IP address, highlighted status changes and more.

http://www.snapfiles.com/get/cports.html

squarepegger · 7th September 2008

Thank you very much for your quick reply, Steve. I'm looking for something that will show usage on the internet for each process in packets/second or Kbps. While CurrPorts is neat, especially when combined with IPNetInfo, I don't see how to determine how much internet traffic each process is responsible for. I'm trying to find out how my bandwidth is being used. Thanks again.