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View Details Of All Installed Network Adapters With This Nirsoft Tool

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Nirsoft utilities are great for their simplicity, portability, minimalism and focus on getting one thing done well with each utility rather than bundling a ton of different features in one large app, and its these characteristics that make us keep coming back to review the developer’s latest releases. We have covered a handful of Nirsoft utilities in the past including NirLauncher, DomainHostingView, NetBScanner, and ShortcutsMan that have proven to be incredibly useful for us and our readers. The company’s latest release is NetworkInterfacesView, that allows you to display the list of all network interfaces and adapters that are currently installed on your system. Along with displaying the active interfaces, the program also lets you view previously installed interface found in the registry of your machine. It can recognize connected devices like USB or PCI-based wireless network adapters commonly used in desktops as well. Read More

Yale: Monitor Bandwidth Usage Of All Active Network Adapters & Connections

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Albeit we have broadband internet connections now, various ISPs cap monthly data volume. It can be quite frustrating sometimes, because you can easily go pass your data plan, especially when the internet content is so rich now. Similarly, sometimes we want to check whether we are getting an optimum internet speed that we are paying for. Yesterday, we covered EmproNetUsgAlert, an application for Windows that is designed to monitor bandwidth usage and alert users when a specified limit is reached. It only shows you an overview of the total upload and download bandwidth usage. Personally, I use NetSpeedMonitor, a network monitoring application that displays the current upload and download rate and maintains a record of the total data transferred during a day, month and year. Both aforementioned tools display the bandwidth usage of only one selected network adapter. If you are using multiple network interfaces or have configured virtual network connections for guest operating systems, then you may need an advance network usage analyzer, such as Yale. It's an application for Windows that allows you to view the bandwidth usage of all network interfaces and connections. It also shows you the CPU usage as well as, the hard disk transfer rate. Continue reading. Read More

Change MAC Address To Bypass Network Usage Restrictions With DynaMAC

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MAC address, also known as Physical address of a system, assist network administrators to identify clients connected in LAN environment. Changing MAC address of (NIC) Network Interface Controller may come useful in situations where system admins filter out clients by their NICs MAC addresses instead of system IPs. For instance, if an extra security layer is added to the LAN network, system admins may easily identify unauthorized users by reading their MAC addresses even if they have already spoofed their IPs in order to gain access to one specific network group. To prevent this, you might need to change your physical address of NIC card. Moreover, some servers restrict their service usage by identifying periodic requests from same client, i.e same physical address of NIC card. In such a situation, DynaMAC can come useful to quickly bypass restrictions imposed by network admins and website owners to gain access to network and use online services. Read More