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Software Reviews
Meta Products: Net Activity Diagram

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This level of customization, combined with the fact that you can run several different diagrams simultaneously, makes Network Activity Diagram extremely powerful, flexible and customizable. The ability to monitor by connection type, protocol, remote host and port number is a level of detail you will never find in freeware programs of this type.

The program also logs the statistics for each diagram and saves them in a file, although the file can only be examined from within NAD. You can view these statistics by diagram and specify time periods as well as zoom in and out of the graph to examine statistics in detail.

The program can monitor active connections to determine what piece of software is making a network connection. The connection is monitored by remote port, local port, state, data in/out, adapter, service, average speed, local address and process. While a firewall can tell you which programs are accessing the network, this can tell you what the program is accessing.

Finally, the program has an extensive notification section that allows notification by:

Conclusion

I've tried a few freeware examples of these types of programs out and I can say without question that NAD is the most customizable and flexible program of its type I've ever used. It's very easy to learn and use yet its powerful features will let you monitor very specific network statistics. This is definitely not one of those all-in-one Internet speed trackers, although it can easily perform that function. It's much smarter than that though.

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If you have to go further than freeware traffic monitors will allow you, Net Activity Diagram is a very worthwhile purchase at a very reasonable $25.

I rate this program 9/10.