Official tool offering router owners access to filesharing, streaming, configuration, parental controls and other NETGEAR settings: NETGEAR Genie is an official program developed by Netgear for owners of certain routers produced by the company. 37.7 MB | For Windows 7, Windows 8 / Vista / XPFree NETGEAR Genie Review - Download
NetSpeedMonitor is a lightweight Network Monitoring Toolbar for your Windows Taskbar designed to be used on computers that run Windows. 2.2 MB | For Windows 7, Windows 8 / Vista / XPFree
GNS3 is a network software emulator that allows the combination of virtual and real devices, used to simulate complex networks; its name is comes from Graphical Network Simulator. 64.2 MB | For Windows 7, Windows 8 / Vista / XPFree
A suite of free network tools including bandwidth monitoring and traceroute: Checking your connection with some of the Windows tools is not always thrilling, that's why programs like Networx exist. | For Windows 7, Windows 8 (64-bit, 32-bit) / Vista / XPFree Networx Review - Download
Nmap for Windows, Nmap coming from "Network Mapper", is a freeware and fully open source networking application which is useful for network auditing and displaying network inventory. 8.4 MB | For Windows 7, Windows 8 / Vista / XPFree Nmap Review - Download
Fiddler is a proxy server, logging and modifying connections between your computer and the Internet over HTTP. 757.3 KB | For Windows 7, Windows 8 / Vista / XPFree Fiddler Review - Download
Nessus Home is a freeware version of the very useful Nessus series of network scanners that can scan a home network for possible vulnerabilities. 32.1 MB | For Windows 7, Windows 8 / Vista / XPFree Nessus Home Review - Download
Designed for network administrators, Free IP Scanner by EUSING scans IP addresses and ports on a network. 0.42 MB | For Windows 7, Windows 8 (64-bit, 32-bit) / Vista / XPFree Free IP Scanner Review - Download
Wireshark Portable is a very popular, completely free and highly recommended network protocol analyzer. 41.3 MB | For Windows 7, Windows 8 / Vista / XPFree Wireshark Portable Review - Download
NetWorx Portable is a simple and free, yet powerful utility for measuring your bandwidth usage and speed of all kinds of wired and wireless network connections (dialup, Ethernet, ISDN, DSL, wireless). 4 MB | For Windows 7, Windows 8 / Vista / XPFree
Bigfoot Networks Killer Network Manager is built from the ground up to give you unequaled speed, intelligence and control over your online game data, Killer Network Manager shows you the health and performance of your online gaming PC and gives you the controls to optimize it. 41.1 MB | For Windows 7, Windows 8 / Vista / XPFree
Wireshark (formerly known as Ethereal until a few years ago) is a very popular, completely free and highly recommended network protocol analyzer. 19.94 MB | For Windows 7, Windows 8 (64-bit, 32-bit) / Vista / XPFree Wireshark Review - Download
Advanced Port Scanner is a free tool with the main function of finding open ports on computers inside of a network. 19.5 MB | For Windows 7, Windows 8 / Vista / XPFree Advanced Port Scanner Review - Download
Scan for and discover devices and printers connected to a network or by MAC, HTTP, SMB, FTP or SNMP services: PortScan can find all active devices on your network. 0.3 MB | For Windows 7, Windows 8 (64-bit, 32-bit) / Vista / XPFree
Useful networking sniffing and packet capturing utility which analyzes network traffic and data over Windows network connections: Microsoft Network Monitor is a protocol analyzer that has been replaced by the Microsoft Message Analyzer. 6.5 MB | For Windows 7, Windows 8 / Vista / XPFree
Free software hardware inventory of windows networks, no need to install software on the clients. 16.48 MB | For Windows 7, Windows 8 (64-bit, 32-bit) / Vista / XPShareware
AMD Quick Stream Technology is an Internet stream optimization software powered by AppEx Networks IPEQ (IP End to end Quality Of Service) technology that prioritizes and shapes the Internet data streams flowing in and out the PC, allowing the high-priority streams and apps to dynamically enjoy the better network resources when competing the limited bandwidth with other less important ones. 8.2 MB | For Windows 7, Windows 8 / Vista / XPFree
Bandwidth monitoring software that detects unusual activity and integrates a firewall to prevent network access to any application: Glasswire is an interesting mix of firewall control and bandwidth management that can give users an idea of what programs are sending data to online servers. 18.4 MB | For Windows 7, Windows 8 / Vista / XPFree GlassWire Review - Download
Advanced IP Scanner is a free and portable application which scans your local network for connected systems and services. 8.4 MB | For Windows 7, Windows 8 / Vista / XPFree Advanced IP Scanner Review - Download
Powerful DNS filter tool that can block web sites based on IP address with user restriction against malicious web sites: NxFilter provides several remote filtering client software for filtering the Internet activity of off-site users or mobile workers. 23.1 MB | For Windows 7, Windows 8 / Vista / XPFree
Snort is a free intrusion detection system for Windows PCs which works by sniffing packets and monitoring networks. 3.1 MB | For Windows 7, Windows 8 / Vista / XPFree Snort Review - Download
WinPcap is a library for monitoring the data traffic on network devices, necessary for the operation of many programs and utilities. 894 KB | For Windows 7, Windows 8 / Vista / XPFree WinPcap Review - Download
System administration software with several useful utilities and tools: SoftPerfect Network Scanner analyzes and produces detailed reports for all systems connected to your same local network between the IP address ranges that you specify, showing IP, MAC Management Health and the speed of response to ping, in addition to controlling the ports TCP and SNMP services. 1.92 MB | For Windows 7, Windows 8 (64-bit, 32-bit) / Vista / XPFree SoftPerfect Network Scanner Review - Download
Cisco CDP Monitor is a highly efficient network monitor and troubleshooting tool. 1.34 MB | For Windows 7, Windows 8 (64-bit, 32-bit) / Vista / XPShareware
LanSpy is a network security scanner, which allows getting different information about computer: Domain and NetBios names, MAC address, Server information, Domain and Domain controller information, Remote control, Time, Discs, Transports, Users, Global and local users groups, Policy settings, Shared resources, Sessions, Open files, Services, Registry and Event log information and etc. 1.06 MB | For Windows 7, Windows 8 / Vista / XPFree
A small monitoring tool which pings to see whether a computer located at an IP address is responding or not: EasyNetMonitor is a small network information tool which resides in the system tray. 217 KB | For Windows 7, Windows 8 / Vista / XPFree EasyNetMonitor Review - Download
SmartSniff is a network monitoring utility that allows you to capture TCP/IP packets that pass through your network adapter, and view the captured data as sequence of conversations between clients and servers. 178 KB | For Windows 7, Windows 8 / Vista / XPFree
Anti Netcut is software which protects your computer connection from ARP poisoning and ARP spoofing attacks while working on shared computer networks. 2.6 MB | For Windows 7, Windows 8 / Vista / XPFree
Powerful network scanning utility that displays information about IP addresses, NetBIOS and SNMP servers with MAC address, name, domain and more: MiTeC Network Scanner is a free multi-threaded ICMP, Port, IP, NetBIOS, ActiveDirectory and SNMP scanner with many advanced features. 2.9 MB | For Windows 7, Windows 8 (64-bit, 32-bit) / Vista / XPFree
A traffic shaping driver, useful in countries with user-based billing: cFosSpeed is billed as an Internet accelerator, but in reality it is a traffic shaping application and bandwidth monitor too. 4.43 MB | For Windows 8Shareware cFosSpeed Review - Download
NetworkTrafficView is a network monitoring tool that captures the packets pass through your network adapter, and displays general statistics about your network traffic. 0.09 MB | For Windows 7, Windows 8 (64-bit, 32-bit) / Vista / XPFree
Logs both incoming and outgoing traffic and displays it in a user interface: Log source, destination and packet size of all network traffic on your network, of course also outbound traffic. 1.96 MB | For Windows 7, Windows 8 (64-bit, 32-bit) / Vista / XPFree
Software to audit and inventory your network: Inventory and discover all computers using NEWT Professional network inventory. 4.36 MB | For Windows 7, Windows 8 (64-bit, 32-bit) / Vista / XPShareware
Manage and analyze your connected network PCs, build reports on software and hardware: Network Inventory Advisor is an application which allows you to carry out different types of network analysis and audits; you can use it to check out the software and hardware information of computers connected to your network and with the freeware home version, you can do this on up to 10 different nodes. 13.07 MB | For Windows 7, Windows 8 (64-bit, 32-bit) / Vista / XPFree Network Inventory Advisor Review - Download
In a day when many Internet Service Providers (ISPs) are imposing bitcaps on customers' connections, it can become a real challenge to manage how much data your system is using. 0.99 MB | For Windows 7, Windows 8 (64-bit, 32-bit) / Vista / XPFree Bitmeter II Review - Download
Measures the speed between two computers over a network, or from the Internet: SpeedTest is a small Windows-based utility which measures the speed between to computers connected on a local network. 2.27 MB | For Windows 7, Windows 8 (64-bit, 32-bit) / Vista / XPFree Raccoonworks SpeedTest Review - Download
Network monitoring application that keeps an eye on incoming and outgoing packets with the ability to receive alerts: Network Traffic Monitor may be used to monitor the Internet traffic on a computer. 19 KB | For Windows 7, Windows 8 / Vista / XPFree
Network inventory & PC auditing solution allowing scans of your entire network in minutes, not hours or days. 3.09 MB | For Windows 7, Windows 8 (64-bit, 32-bit) / Vista / XPFree
HTTPNetworkSniffer is a packet sniffer tool that captures all HTTP requests/responses sent between the Web browser and the Web server and displays them in a simple table. 0.09 MB | For Windows 7, Windows 8 (64-bit, 32-bit) / Vista / XPFree
Internet Logger is a program for monitoring network traffic on a Windows-based PC system. 0.12 MB | For Windows 7, Windows 8 / Vista / XP / NTFree Internet Logger Review - Download