Freeware: Network Connectivity

	Connection Manager Lite  License: Freeware
	Internet connectivity with a laptop or cell phone has never been easier than it is with Connection Manager LITE. It automatically detects available networks and automates the creation and management of connection settings. Allows laptop users seamless migration between LAN or wireless network support. Connection Manager LITE also easily manages your access points across every commercially available network deployed today, including WiFi, business ethernet (DSL and cable) or home networks and standard modems. Connection Manager LITE allows you to save two profiles, enabling the mobile user to create and save a profile each time a connection to a new network is made. Each profile retains connection settings for future use including IP settings, and email parameters information. Connection Manager LITE is the ideal utility for wireless networking for road warriors and business travelers, whether it's using wi-fi hotspots, laptop wireless internet access or network connection troubleshooting in general. The Pro version of this product offers unlimited account profiles, and offers top grade security measures as well. Author: BVRP Software| Date: 17-06-2005 | Size: 6142 KB
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	Pinger  License: Freeware
	ALSEDI Pinger is a small FREEWARE utility displaying connection status to specified site/host. It uses standard Ping (ICMP) protocol to check host availability, so it can be used to monitor connection status to any site, like google.com or any computer in your home/office network. Author: ALSEDI| Date: 1-22-2008 | Size: 200 KB
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	Whisher 2.0  License: Freeware
	Free Wifi Everywhere: You can get access to thousands of Wifi networks around the world by participating to the community and sharing your network in a secure and controlled way. The application also integrates MSN, Yahoo Messenger, Google Talk and ICQ chat clients and can send updates to your Twitter account. Feature list: Whisher provides many features for you:  WiFi connectivity and sharing  Communication across all services  Group chat  Geolocation  File transfer  Automatic access to other networks  Local chat  Local services Author: Whisher Solutions S.L.| Date: 01-10-2007 | Size: 6301 KB
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	Visual NetTools  License: Freeware
	Visual NetTools is a set of network scanning, security, and administrator tools for Apple Mac useful in diagnosing networks and monitoring your computer's network connections. Current version of Visual NetTools includes: Visual Ping Sends out an echo request to a specific computer on the network. It can be used to check communication links or to check whether the specific host exists or is running. Ping include not only text, but a complete Visual representation of echo requests from your comp. You can manage Ping interval and target host. History of network host included. We will add a lot of new tools shortly, some of new tools: TraceRoute: allow you to explore the Internet and troubleshoot connectivity problems. NetStat: displays a list of your computer's inbound and outbound network connections, including the information on open TCP and UDP ports, IP address, and connection states. What makes it different from other NetStat utilities is the ability to map open ports to the owning application. Configurable alerts for incoming and outgoing connections are also available. PortScan: an advanced TCP port scanner that allows you to scan your network for active ports. And more useful tools for network monitoring and security. Features:  # Visual Ping is clean and more comfortable Ping representation  # Visual Traceroute is clean and comfortable traceroute representation  # Graphic representation of regular, minimal, maximal and average values of Ping  # Graphic representation of regular, minimal, maximal and average values of Traceroute  # Complete network error detection and log  # Compatible with PowerPC G4 or G5 and Intel Core 2 processors  # Easy to use Author: AirGrab| Date: 20-08-2008 | Size: 2591 KB
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	WeFi For WinXP  License: Freeware
	WeFi enables reliable connection to Wi-Fi wherever wireless networks are available, and helps keep you connected to the fastest most reliable network around. Wefi users can move between open Wi-Fi networks automatically, without having to manually choose or click around between new networks. WeFi users can monitor approved friends' online status and location, and know the proximity of neighboring WeFi users who allow it, chat with them, and make new friends of your online neighbors. WeFi hotspot directory will help you find a wireless network to connect to anywhere around the world, provided by our global mapping project of Wefi users. Each of over 380,000 mapped hotspots has a Spotpage on Wefi.com with a map and other details about its location and connectivity. Spyware free, available for Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows CE and Mac OS. Author: WeFi| Date: 05-03-2008 | Size: 5829 KB
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	WeFi  License: Freeware
	WeFi enables reliable connection to Wi-Fi wherever wireless networks are available, and helps keep you connected to the fastest most reliable network around. Wefi users can move between open Wi-Fi networks automatically, without having to manually choose or click around between new networks. WeFi users can monitor approved friends' online status and location, and know the proximity of neighboring WeFi users who allow it, chat with them, and make new friends of your online neighbors. WeFi hotspot directory will help you find a wireless network to connect to anywhere around the world, provided by our global mapping project of Wefi users. Each of over 380,000 mapped hotspots has a Spotpage on Wefi.com with a map and other details about its location and connectivity. Spyware free, available for Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows CE and Mac OS. Author: WeFi| Date: 09-07-2008 | Size: 7273 KB
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	Network Traffic Monitor  License: Freeware
	Network Traffic Monitor shows you which processes in your machine are causing TCP/IP network traffic, how much traffic that is, and over which IP ports this traffic takes place. For each process it can show detailed information, including the path to the process executable. Network Traffic Monitor can give you a historic overview of the network traffic since the application was started, and save that info to a file for later examination. Author: Nico Cuppen Software| Date: 02-06-2005 | Size: 602 KB
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	Network Sniffer Complete  License: Freeware
	Network Sniffer is a Windows based Packet sniffer an Network analyzer Network Sniffer is a Windows based Packet sniffer an Network analyzer, a revolutionary new network management tool designed from the ground up with ease and functionality in mind. Network Sniffer is a Windows based Packet sniffer an Network analyzer Network Sniffer is a Windows based Packet sniffer an Network analyzer, a revolutionary new network management tool designed from the ground up with ease and functionality in mind. Network Sniffer aids at monitoring network traffic in order to recognize and decode certain packets of interest. Network Sniffer puts your Network adapter into listening mode, capturing everything that travels through the Network. This can help you solve network bottlenecks or spot illegitimate activity like crack attacks, Spyware, and other sort of malicious, unormal Traffic. Key Features: 1. Simple network sniffer/packet capturing tool 2. Intuitive user interface. 3. Can detect OS's, sessions, hostnames, open ports etc. 4. Does overload traffic on the network. 5. Can also parse PCAP files for off-line analysis. Author: MySystemExpert| Date: 29-06-2008 | Size: 2220 KB
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	Visual Trace Route  License: Freeware
	FREE Visual replacement for the standard trace route utility. This software is the fastest way to get the route between your computer and any other computer in the world. This utility can quickly trace a route from your computer to any other device. A utility that traces a packet from your computer to an Internet host, showing how many hops the packet requires to reach the host and how long each hop takes. If you're visiting a Web site and pages are appearing slowly, you can use traceroute to figure out where the longest delays are occurring. Visual Trace Route utility work by sending packets with low time-to-live (TTL) fields. The TTL value specifies how many hops the packet is allowed before it is returned. When a packet can't reach its destination because the TTL value is too low, the last host returns the packet and identifies itself. By sending a series of packets and incrementing the TTL value with each successive packet, traceroute finds out who all the intermediary hosts are. You can start Visual Trace Route from the desktop icon, or from the program group manager of the start menu. Also, you can start Visual Trace Route is from Command Prompt. First, start Command Prompt from the Start/Run menu. Very easy to use interface. Incredible tracing speed. Complete control of tracing parameters. Detailed and complete results of the tracing process. Real time results in text and graphical mode. Complete documentation. Desktop and start menu launching. Command prompt launching. Command prompt launching WITH parameters. It's FREE. Visual Trace Route is easy to use, cool designed, friendly interface, very fast in tracing routes, and it's free. Author: IT Lights Software| Date: 13-03-2005 | Size: 595 KB
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	LucidLink Wireless Client  License: Freeware
	LucidLink Wireless Client makes it easy to access Wi-Fi networks. It can be used to connect to home networks, office networks, or public hotspots. This client is easy to install, easy to use, and it solves an array of problems Wi-Fi users face connecting to different wireless networks. The LucidLink Client automatically detects network security settings, alerts users to incompatible settings and provides instructions for resolving them, ensuring that users establish connectivity rather than being left to wonder what is wrong. It detects and warns against suspected security problems such as the Evil Twin and potential Man-in-the-Middle Security Attacks. Supports networks secured with LucidLink Wireless Security, WEP, WPA-PSK, and open (unsecured) networks. Author: Interlink Networks, Inc.| Date: 01-04-2005 | Size: 19300 KB
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	AdventNet ManageEngine OpUtils  License: Freeware
	The AdventNet ManageEngine OpUtils is a comprehensive set of 40+ unique system and network monitoring tools. It is a Java and web-based troubleshooting software for monitoring devices such as router, switch, server, desktop, etc. The tool set is best suited for IT operational staff and network engineers responsible for maintaining and monitoring networks. AdventNet ManageEngine OpUtils 3 provides real-time monitoring tools to troubleshoot poor network performance, heavy bandwidth utilization and connectivity or link problems before they turn into outages, delayed response times, high CPU usage, hard disk utilization, device availability, software inventory, etc. It has a collection of 40+ real-time troubleshooting tools. A standard enterprise manager monitors the devices in periodic intervals and stores the data in a database, whereas ManageEngine OpUtils provides real-time data instantly. ManageEngine OpUtils is available in Free and Professional Editions. OpUtils Free Edition has 25 tools, and it is absolutely free of cost. Some important tools in the Free Edition are Ping Scan, SNMP Scan, MAC Scan, DNS Scan, Enhanced Ping, Proxy Ping, all desktop monitoring tools (CPU, Hard disk, Process monitoring, etc.) and most of the SNMP tools (SNMP Walker, SNMP Graph, MIB Viewer and Trap Receiver). The Professional Edition has 43 tools, which includes Network monitoring (Switch Port Mapper, Wake-on-LAN, Performance and Bandwidth monitoring) and Cisco Router monitoring tools. (IOS, Chassis, Flash, CPU, Memory, Interfaces, Config Files, etc.) The 30-day trial copy is available for download in the web site. The Professional Edition costs $195. Since it is a web-based product, you can install OpUtils in one machine and allow many users to connect and use the tools at the same time. This is a real boon to stressed IT and System administrators. Author: AdventNet Inc.| Date: 01-03-2005 | Size: 26095 KB
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	LucidLink WiFi Client  License: Freeware
	LucidLink WiFi Client makes it easy to access Wi-Fi networks. It can be used to connect to home networks, office networks, or public hotspots. This client is easy to install, easy to use, and it solves an array of problems Wi- Fi users face connecting to different wireless networks. The LucidLink WiFI Client automatically detects network security settings, alerts users to incompatible settings and provides instructions for resolving them, ensuring that users establish connectivity rather than being left to wonder what is wrong. It detects and warns against suspected security problems such as the Evil Twin and potential Man-in-the-Middle Security Attacks. Supports networks secured with WEP, WPA-PSK, and open (unsecured) networks. Author: LucidLink| Date: 31-12-2006 | Size: 19300 KB
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	Network Info Requester  License: Freeware
	Network Information Requester is very simple utility. You need to launch it and all information will be collected automaticly, without any attention. It takes about a second to collect the information about network settings for the each installed network adapter. Also you able the save this information to the HTML file. It's a very handy when you need to troubleshoot network settings or find a problem at remote computer. You able to collect: Computer name. User name. Network adapter type. Network card ID. Network card name and description. DHCP settings. Network card IP address. Network card mask. DHCP server IP. The time when DHCP settings arrived and expires. Gateway IP. WINS settings. Primary WINS server IP. Secondary WINS server IP. Author: CEZEO software| Date: 02-11-2006 | Size: 80 KB
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	EMCO Network Favorites  License: Freeware
	Emco Network Favorites 1.0 can assist when you need to take a backup of remote machines favorites in your network, or copy some favorite link files to remote machines. Restore favorites also supported. You can easily fetch all machines from your network with the Enumerate LAN method, located under the Actions menu item. Author: Emco Software Ltd.| Date: 10-10-2002 | Size: 1034 KB
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	NADetector  License: Freeware
	NADetector monitors and analyzes the network traffic and displays statistical information pertaining to each IP address pair and protocol, helping network administrators and users troubleshoot network problems. The main purpose of NADetector is to allow you to collect statistical information about your network traffic that passes through network adapters and display incoming, outgoing and summary traffic statistics. This information is useful, especially for understanding the different IP addresses and data amounts involved with a given network utilizing task. The tool is designed with a user-friendly interface and is easy to use. Author: Nsasoft LLC.| Date: 15-11-2007 | Size: 527 KB
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	Port Mapper  License: Freeware
	Port Mapper is a freeware tool which helps home users open/close ports in their routers and gateways securely. It automatically maps and manages ports in the router, enabling online multiplayer game play without disturbing the gaming session. Port Mapper is more secure than manually opening and closing ports, because it opens the ports only when needed and automatically closes them when you are finished playing. Port Mapper works with your Internet gateway/router in such a way that you can have control on the programs that communicate over your network. Using Port Mapper, you can expose applications to your friends over the internet in a safe manner. It also supports wireless connectivity and notifies you when you go out of range of the gateway. If you are a gaming freak who loves gaming on the internet and don't want to be disturbed with the manual opening and closing of ports at your router, you are sure gonna love this tiny tool. Author: HomeNetMagic| Date: 23-08-2005 | Size: 431 KB
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	Inventory Manager Lite  License: Freeware
	Inventory Manager is a FREE Help Desk and network management program for Windows 95/98/2000/ME/NT. Managing a network involves keeping track of hardware, dealing with faults and users queries, liaising with equipment and service vendors, installing and maintaining software and reporting on the status of the network. Network Inventory Manager Lite is designed to help you do just that. Author: Microforge.net Limited| Date: 20-04-2001 | Size: 15081 KB
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	VE Network Catcher (Lite)  License: Freeware
	Network Catcher, from Shunra Software, is a free network monitoring tool that records and displays latency and packet loss between your PC and any internet site. Use this freeware tool to monitor the quality of your network link. You can save all your recordings and send it to another user via email. Network Catcher also integrates with Shunra’s network simulation technology, enabling you to capture and import production conditions directly into network simulation scenarios and test applications under real-life network conditions. Network Catcher’s production network recordings are also ideal for baselining the performance of the production network, including best case, worst case and average application performance – giving you a great starting point from which to make informed decisions on performance limitations and expectations for new or existing applications that are about to be deployed over the network. Using production network parameters is ideal for testing applications when the target network already exists, such as a company’s corporate network or a customer’s network. However, if the target network has not yet been designed or built out, you can record a variety of different production networks and create a library of production network conditions which you can then use to test your applications and ensure that that they meet performance expectations in any potential network environment. Author: Shunra Software| Date: 01-12-2005 | Size: 533 KB
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	DnsEye  License: Freeware
	DnsEye is monitoring network traffic by capturing Domain Name System DNS packets in network and displays the host names resolve information. The program allows to monitor requested URLs in network, to open it in browser and save captured DNS name list in the file. The tool is designed with a user-friendly interface and is easy to use. Author: Nsasoft LLC.| Date: 08-12-2006 | Size: 479 KB
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	Chase IP  License: Freeware
	Chase ip monitors your network and gives you real time information on packets incoming and outgoing. It has a cool country from ip address locator and also a local area network computer locator. Its simple but if you need to find out what is moving across your network and exactly to where then Chase IP has a lot of information and broadband speed test Author: Chase IP| Date: 4-91-2006 | Size: 1622 KB
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	FreeSysInfo  License: Freeware
	FreeSysInfo allows you to discover system and network information on your local machine or network computer. The tool used WMI ( Windows Management Instrumentation ) to discover full NDIS information, wireless network status and type, network adapters, system processes and services, serial communications and display information, hardware and connections status, user and system accounts, proxy settings, shared resource information and more. The tool is designed with a user-friendly interface and is easy to use.  Author: Nsasoft LLC.| Date: 22-06-2008 | Size: 541 KB
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	ManageEngine DeviceExpert Free Edition  License: Freeware
	ManageEngine DeviceExpert is a comprehensive Network Change and Configuration Management (NCCM) solution that enables the Network Administrator to efficiently and effortlessly manage the configurations of Network Devices. DeviceExpert offers multi-vendor network device configuration, continuous monitoring of configuration changes, notifications on respective changes, detailed operation audit and trails, easy and safe recovery to trusted configurations, automation of configuration tasks and insightful reporting. DeviceExpert can manage network devices such as switches, routers, firewalls etc., from multiple vendors. It discovers network devices, builds up an inventory database and allows IT administrators to take control of configuring the devices from a central console. The web-based administrator console provides the User Interface to perform all the configuration operations and it can be accessed from anywhere using any standard web browser. Author: AdventNet, Inc.| Date: 31-12-2005 | Size: 24000 KB
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	Network Watcher  License: Freeware
	Network Watcher is windows application that helps you catalogue network computers and monitor their state. It now supports (or will in near future) various notifications - desktop message, net send, mail, etc when something happens, provides you with possibility to send Wake On Lan signal to some computer. You can use it also as a simple catalogue of your network. All data about machines is stored in XML file. It features: -Easy to use windows interface -Manually add one computer or automatically scan some network segment -Organizing computers in groups -Import data from other people -Various notifications when some computer go online or offline -Identification of NIC vendor Author: Hive Studios| Date: 01-05-2005 | Size: 152 KB
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	Free IP Switcher  License: Freeware
	Whenever mobile user moves to different network, has to change particular IP address, gateway address, subnet mask, proxy server and default printer, etc., to particular network environment. In order to do it, he has to remember TCP/IP settings information of every network. Also, he has to reboot the computer to apply it to the system and to access the Internet. Don't waste your time reconfiguring computer network settings every time you change your location. Free IP Switcher is a perfect solution for you. It switches between preconfigured network settings with a single click and without any reboot. With Free IP Switcher you can automatically change all network settings on your pc: IP address, network masks, default gateway, dns server, wins server, proxy settings, default printer and more. Key Features:  Switch IP network settings "on the fly" without restarting  Switch Internet Explorer proxy-server settings  Switch your default printer  Switch your computer name and workgroup  Import current network settings to the setting  System-tray icon support, auto-start with windows  100% Spyware FREE, NOT contain any Spyware, Adware or Viruses Author: Eusing Software| Date: 24-10-2007 | Size: 689 KB
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	SHAREManager  License: Freeware
	Use SHAREManager to quickly add, update or remove network shares in a standard way across your Windows network. Remove admin shares - or add them to make network management easier. Limit access to specific users or groups, defining the access type allowed. Use parameters in share names to apply a standard share naming convention across your network - for example, use this to apply a consistent hidden share naming approach. SHAREManager is a free tool that works either by itself or complementing our award winning centralised storage management tool, SPACEWatch Pro. Author: Sharpeware Ltd| Date: 11-09-2005 | Size: 2103 KB
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	Network Ping  License: Freeware
	Network Ping is the network diagnostic utility that allows visual monitoring of computers/devices activity in the network. The notification feature helps to identify the machines ping reply status change by sending emails. Author: Greenline-Soft Labs| Date: 12-09-2007 | Size: 197 KB
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	NetSendFaker  License: Freeware
	NetSendFaker allows you to send anonymous net send messages to anyone that is connected to the network. You can also emulate messages as if they were sent from other computer. The tool is designed with a user-friendly interface and is easy to use. Author: Nsasoft LLC.| Date: 07-10-2005 | Size: 360 KB
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	EyeOnSite  License: Freeware
	<b>EyeOnSite</b> is a tool that keeps an eye on your sites or servers to see if they are accessible on the net. The services that can be monitored are <b>http, ftp, smtp and pop3</b>. When a service goes down, you can choose to be alerted with a visual message or an audible alarm. In addition, you can send an email message or launch an application which can be used to correct the situation. All error events are logged in individual log files and stats generated for each service. The status window shows the current state of all monitored services. <br><br> <b><u>Main Features:</u></b> <UL> <LI>Visual and audible alerts. <LI>Launch an application when a service goes on or comes off error. <LI>Send an email message when a service goes on or comes off error. <LI>Individual log files and stats for each service monitored. <LI>Customizable polling interval. <LI>Set a different poll interval when a service goes on error. <LI>Services supported: http, ftp, smtp, pop3. <LI>Pattern matching support for http. <LI>Support for http proxy <LI>Support for multi-domained web sites. </UL> Author: Virdi Software| Date: 29-06-2005 | Size: 790 KB
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	My IPs  License: Freeware
	MY IPs is a little utility that will return your actual Internet IP address even if you're behind a Firewall. It accomplishes this by connecting to remote Web Site and returning the IP address from there. In addition it will return your ISP Customer ID, Host name and Network IPs from all if any exist. Author: Camtech 2000| Date: 05-03-2003 | Size: 1089 KB
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	FinitySoft Network Monitor  License: Freeware
	FinitySoft Network Monitor displays all kind of information in real time about all network adapters (network cards, RAS connections, virtual cards, server monitoring for web hosting) in your system. Data displayed for each network adapter: - Current download speed - Current upload speed - Total data downloaded - Total data uploaded - IP address - Adapter speed - MTU size - Adapter type - MAC address - Status - Admin status - many more Author: FinitySoft| Date: 09-11-2007 | Size: 207 KB
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