Zamzom Wireless Network Tool

N/A

If you think you are surfing the net slower than usual, it is probably that your connection is being used by more users. Those neighbours can be stealing you! There's an easy way to check the number of machines connected to your router and is called Zamzom Wireless Network Tool. It will scan your router for active connections and will tell you the number of devices using it as well as their names. It offers two scan levels. The basic one is usually enough to find any device using the network, while the advanced one will search for hidden devices stealing bandwidth. It will tell you the IP and MAC of the connected devices so you can check if they are yours or not. If you check any of those devices is not yours, then, you'll have to access the router menu and ban it.

TCPView

Mark Russinovich

TCPView is a useful tool to control network traffic generated through the TCP/IP protocol. Columns display information about the process that created the connection, the protocol being used, the local port being accessed, the destination IP address, and the port it will use. It also indicates the state of the connection: listening, close wait, established, and time wait. As the connection passes from one state to another, TCPView changes the color of the entry to make it easier to identify active processes. If you think that a process is involved in suspicious activity, TCPView will help you check its progression, and enable you to then close or terminate the connection.

Auto Reboot

GamerMode

Auto Reboot is a simple tool that allows you to restart your machine's router, typically a pretty tedious task, without letting go of your mouse - all you need is a couple seconds and one click. Basically, the application send the necessary commands (after you've manually configured everything) to the router and informs you of your new and previous IP addresses. It's that simple, and that fast. Auto Reboot is an easy-to-use tool that could really come in handy for users, especially those who, for example, have set their router up far away from their workspace.

LanTool

N37dev

LanTool is an excellent utility that you can use to administer your local network. The program includes all of the features and functions you would expect from an application of its type, like to remotely turn off, restart, or turn on computers. The main menu displays all of the computers you have control over. Right-clicking any one of them will give you the ability to perform various operations that fall into one of five basic categories: system operations, messaging, network status, info, and miscellaneous. From that popup menu you can send files to another PC, finalize remote processes, keep track of network connection status, lower the volume on other machines, and more. All of this comes packaged in a super simple application that is also completely free.

RogueScanner

Network Chemistry, Inc.

Axence NetTools

Axence Software

Axence NetTools is a set of tools made to monitor, manage, secure, and analyze any network so you can control everything down to the smallest detail. The program is divided into several different tools: Netwatch, for example, lets you monitor several networks and their response times in real time, while Netstats provides information about incoming and outgoing connections and open ports. Other tools let you measure network performance, scan for nodes, check the DNS, etc. Axence NetTools is a comprehensive package of tools, and thanks to its simple interface, it feels much sleeker than you'd first think.

Intel Unison

Intel Corporation

Intel Unison is a tool developed by Intel that lets you connect your PC to an Android smartphone. To do so, simply install the app on both devices, after which you'll be ready to take advantage of countless time-saving features. The way Intel Unison works is uncomplicated and, thanks to a very intuitive interface, it's easy to get the most out of this tool. One of the most interesting features offered by this tool is that, in a matter of seconds, you can transfer files, photos, or videos between your computer and your smartphone. On the other hand, Intel Unison offers numerous services to help you communicate with your contacts in a simple way. In this sense, you'll find all the contacts from your address book on your PC, so you can quickly make calls or video calls without using your smartphone. In addition, sending or receiving text messages is a breeze. Download Intel Unison for Windows to link your Android to your PC in order to exchange data or execute various actions with ease. This way, you'll have a lot of flexibility when communicating or sharing content. That said, to use the tool, you'll need a computer equipped with an Intel EVO generation processor.

NetSpot

NetSpot

NetSpot is the only professional app for wireless site survey, Wi-Fi analysis and troubleshooting on Windows. It's FREE and very simple, no need to be a network expert to start using NetSpot today! Analyze your Wi-Fi Coverage NetSpot is the easiest native wireless site survey software for Windows. You need just a few clicks to load your office plan or area map and start a network site survey. Just point to where you are on the map and NetSpot starts measuring wireless signal right away, move around, and collect Wi-Fi data. That's it: now you have all the needed info to analyze radio signal leakages, discover noise sources, map channel usage, locate effective access points, etc. Visualize Your Wireless Network Efficiency-wise, your Wi-Fi network needs hotspots placed correctly and radio channels assigned in a proper way: the visual Wi-Fi map you get thanks to NetSpot lets you see all dead zones without coverage and optimize hotspots' placements; you can see channels' load and decide how to use them ideally. Wireless Network Planning NetSpot is also an amazing wireless survey tool for Wi-Fi planning. Load a map, collect some wireless site survey data, build a comprehensive heatmap of your network. Now viewing each channel separately is as easy as a pie. Once you locate an empty channel with no wireless networks - it's the optimal selection for a new Wi-Fi network. NetSpot also lets you easily select channels for new Wi-Fi hotspots with minimal signal to noise ratio. Thanks to new Troubleshooting visualizations you can easily and quickly identify connectivity and wireless interference issues, find sources of excessive noise, resolve Wi-Fi configuration problems, and get automated professional advice on every issue visualized by NetSpot PRO.

Free Hide IP

Free-HideIP

Free Hide IP is a small program that, as its name indicates, allows you to hide your IP and substitute it with one from another country. In principle, you can select among many different countries when hiding your IP, although in the trial version you can only select one from the U.S. The IP hiding process is very simple, as all you will have to do is click and within seconds you will have a new IP address that will shadow over yours. Free Hide IP is a relatively easy tool that, despite fulfilling its promise effectively, its usage is very limited.

Internet Accelerator

Pointstone Software

When your Internet connection slows to a crawl, it can become a nightmare, Internet Accelerator is an application developed to avoid this problem ever happening again. Internet Accelerator improves various settings that affect your network and the speed of your Internet connection by reducing the loading time for web pages and optimizing the network connection. While it's true that you can edit these settings manually, Internet Accelerator makes it easy for anyone to achieve maximum performance from their connection with just a few clicks. You will be able to transfer the maximum amount of data possible without noticing any slow down.

Ultimate IP Changer

Olcinium software

Ultimate IP Change is a tool that allows you to change your IP address, subnet mask, DNS, or Proxy, just by clicking or selecting a different profile. The program supports DHP, which makes it perfect to use with a laptop that you may use in different locations, like at home and at work, where you often have to change your network configurations. In the application's memory you can store tons of profiles with their own TCP/IP protocols. You can see available IP addresses and make a quick switch, or change the TCP/IP with just a click, without needing to restart your machine. Ultimate IP Change is a really useful tool that lets you easily change your network parameters from any desktop computer, in addition to supporting static IPs and DHC.

Hide ALL IP

Hide ALL IP

Hide ALL IP is a simple app that allows you to browse the Internet completely anonymously, as it allows you to hide your real IP address. So, you can go to any website without making yourself vulnerable to hackers and threats that could cause you a number of problems if your system's security doesn't hold up. In addition to hiding your true identity, Hide ALL IP also creates a new IP, which is the IP that anyone who is looking for your IP will see. This tool can also encrypt all of the data transfers you perform, so anyone who is monitoring your communication won't be able to figure out what you are doing. This option also guarantees your complete privacy when you are consulting important information such as your medical history or bank account. Hiding your IP couldn't be easier. Not only can you use a random address chosen by the app, but you can also choose a new identity in any country that you choose.

WiFi password revealer

Magical Jelly Bean

WiFi Password Revealer is a handy tool that shows you all the Wi-Fi passwords saved on your PC whenever you want. It's particularly useful in those moments when you loose a password, cannot access the Internet, but really need to for whatever reason. In such cases, you can reset the password without hassle and modify it as you wish, and thanks to its simple interface this is not complicated to use. You can find the encryption method and type of connection for your network and, depending on the vulnerability of this, set a new password accordingly.

DNS Jumper

Sordum.org

In addition to the DNS addresses you provide our Internet provider, there are other DNS addresses (Google Public DNS, OpenDNS, etc.). that are assumed to be faster and safer. With DNS Jumper you can switch between multiple DNS addresses quickly and easily without having knowledge of connection settings in Windows. Jumper DNS does not require any installation and its interface is as simple as a predefined list of DNS addresses. To choose one of them just click its button. The default DNS addresses can be changed from the text file that accompanies the program.

Getscreen

Getscreen.me

Getscreen is an application for Windows that lets you use your PC remotely from any connected device. To use it, you first have to link both devices through a personal network. The first step of setting up Getscreen is installing this application on your PC. After a few seconds, you'll get a link that you can open on any browser, no matter whether it's on a smartphone, Mac, tablet, or some other device. From there, you can access your PC. One advantage to using Getscreen is that you can work with multiple monitors while transferring a file. You can also copy and paste remotely to move information between connected devices. And all this is possible without having to install anything on the other devices. Getscreen is a no-fuss way to share information between PCs and other local devices. It only takes a few minutes to connect all your devices on the same personal network, after which you can transfer batches of files and other multimedia content with zero hassle.

UltraVNC

Ultr@VNC Team

UltraVNC is a simple and easy to use utility focused on Windows systems which we will be able to control any machine connected to the network or internet with. UltraVNC allows you to use your mouse and keyboard to control the other PC remotely. It means that you can work on a remote computer, as if you were sitting in front of it, right from your current location. Ultra VNC is based on VNC (Virtual Network Computing), original version of a client/server software which offers you the possibility of remotely accessing to a started session in your computer from any other PC connected to internet . In this new version it appears some new enhanced details that make of it one of the best programs for this purpose. As long as you work in Windows environment, the best option to remotely control systems is Ultra VNC.

Gateway Laptop to Hotspot Converter

DGTSoft

When you travel or need to use the Internet away from home, you generally have to find an available Wi-Fi network. Now you can make your life a little bit easier by having your very own hotspot no matter where you find yourself. Gateway Laptop to Hotspot Converter is a tool that converts your laptop into a wireless hotspot, making it a Wi-Fi gateway to share Internet with friends or mobile devices. How does it work? If your computer is connected to the Internet via LAN and you want to use it as a hotspot, just select the button 'Click here to setup your computer as a computer hotspot'. Otherwise, if you want to connect to other portable hotspots nearby, select 'Click here to connect to computer hotspot'. The application will detect any available connections automatically, so you can manually select the LAN connection and select the wireless connection acting as a Wi-Fi hotspot. Then you just have to press 'Start Hotspot'. After that, the laptop access point is ready to use.

DeviceLock

SmartLine Inc.

DeviceLock is a tool designed and developed to ease the work of network administrators, giving them capacity to control access to peripherals and units installed on the network. This is a useful way to avoid data steals, it's demonstrated that most steal are due to a low protection against the employees. Thanks to DeviceLock we'll be able to decide the user groups that will be able to access certain location such as USB ports, CD/DVD drives,... as well as to know who and when access them. Finally, you'll be able to change the properties of the units, so you'll be able to choose if they will be only readable, eliminate temporary files or even protect them against accidental formats.

IpJudo

Duckware

NetWorx

SoftPerfect

Networx is a free application for windows that will allow you to see how fast you are downloading and uploading data from the internet. It has a very simple method of inquiry: simply by clicking on the Networx icon in the system tray you can know the speed with which you are recieving and sending data via the internet. It also has a window with more detailed information about data transfer, a speed analyzer for your network, a route analyzer, and a screen with information about the network usage of your programs. In the program options you can chose if you want it to monitor all the system's connections or only those from a specific network adapter. From this same preference window you can define other parameters, like the information you will receive when you click the system tray icon, the way the program starts up, the graphic mode of the detailed view, and you can even define notifications based on speed and the quantity of data received or sent, and assign to each case an alert or specific action.

Xirrus Wi-Fi Inspector

Xirrus

PingPlotter Standard

Nessoft, LLC.

Ping is the term that is used to check the state of a connection between two different points on the same network. Among the uses of this technique, you will find the ability to locate where there is a problem if your network is not working as it should, and you can also take the first steps to fix it. PingPlotter Standard is a simple utility that handles this operation and lets you monitor the results through a convenient interface that is accessible for any type of user. The results can be exported to a text file or image file. Among the various parameters that PingPlotter lets you configure for each session, you can set the number of times it will run the test, and the elapsed time between tests.

Slitheris Network Discovery

Komodo Laboratories LLC

Slitheris Network Discovery is much more than a typical IP scanner, capable of scanning 100 network devices in about 5 minutes! Most network scanners detect the basics like the MAC Address, but leave the OS field empty and don't even bother identifying device types. Our IP scanner uses standard multi-threaded ping sweeps to find pingable devices, and uses ARP pings and other advanced network discovery technology to detect unpingable hidden devices. Other state-of-the-art features include operating system detection of Windows, Linux, iOS, and Android using proprietary TCP/UDP OS fingerprinting. Slitheris includes experimental network device type detection to find servers, printers, switches, routers, iPhones, iPads and more using heuristic analysis and device type fingerprinting. Network device names are pulled from up to 10 different possible locations on each device, assisting in detecting network device types. It even detects true case-sensitive PC names for Windows computers and servers. Slitheris Network Scanner comes in both freeware and Pro versions to suit the needs of all small, medium and enterprise organizations. Even home users will find Slitheris Network Scanner extremely useful on their own home networks.

Logi Bolt App

Logitech

DNS Angel

Sordum.org

DNS Angel is a simple parental control tool for Windows that can help you configure your DNS server to block and filter content that's inappropriate for children, like pornography, malware, or phishing. Now we can be 100% certain that our children navigate the Internet without the possibility of accessing or finding content that's inappropriate for their age. It's as simple as installing DNS Angel and choosing from the four protection options that are offered, which consist of four DNS servers. Upon picking one of them, the configuration will be automatically saved and you won't have to go back and modify anything manually. If you want to go back to the initial options, you should follow the same process but in reverse. This makes for controlling what our children see a very simple task indeed.

NetSpeedMonitor

Florian Gilles

NetSpeedMonitor is a small application designed to measure the download and upload traffic generated by your connection to the internet. The program shows you, from the system bar, at which speed you are downloading or uploading files so you can always have this information controlled in a comfortable way. To use NetSpeedMonitor after its installation you will have to click with the right mouse button on the Windows system bar and activate the controller. Once you have it, it will remain next to the system icons to show you the requested information in the simplest way. Additionally, NetSpeedMonitor is capable of generating a complete traffic report in HTML so you can analyze it in detail if you want.

cFosSpeed

cFos Software GmbH

cFosSpeed is a simple application aimed to improve the general performance of your internet connection prioritizing your broad band for those applications that need it the most. The program is totally recommended for online game users and p2p programs like eMule, KaZaA or BitTorrent. It also improves the ping waiting time, the VoIP conversations and the streaming in online reproduction of video or audio. cFosSpeed positions itself in the background as another icon in the system tray. To configure and determine which applications should receive more broadband you only have to specify it in the personalization options in that same icon.

Psiphon

Psiphon Inc.

Psiphon is a free, open source, cross-platform VPN app that allows you to browse with absolute privacy and security. You will be able to access any content restricted by your location, circumvent online barriers imposed by any country and, in short, surf the Internet with the anonymity and security that all users should have. Using Psiphon is very simple. The program does not require any installation: just double-click on the executable and the program will instantly open and start connecting to one of its servers. Psiphon also operates a secure network of alternate servers and employs a protocol that is resistant to the vast majority of blocks, all with the goal of providing its users with free access to the Internet. In the configuration options menu you can find a multitude of settings for those users who are looking for something more. From here you will be able to choose the region of the server through which you want to connect, being able to choose between more than twenty different countries. You will also be able to activate the Split Tunnel option, which will prevent requests made to servers within your own country from being sent through the Psiphon tunnel. For those users who are looking for more browsing speed, Psiphon offers the possibility of using coins (which can be purchased with real money) to acquire a speed boost for a limited time. This is completely optional, of course, but you can also directly support the developers of the project, which is open source. Psiphon is an excellent VPN tool, thanks to which you will be able to bypass most of the geographical restrictions that stand in your way. Even better, you will be able to enjoy anonymity and security, something that is increasingly necessary nowadays.

MKN NetSniffer Console

MKN Software

TCPEye Network Tools

N/A

TCPEye Network Tools is a monitoring tool that always displays the full list of TCP/IP and UDP ports open on your computer. Each open port is shown on a list, from which you can access detailed information about it including its complete address, name, country flag, the user that created it, and more. The program also flags suspicious TCP/UDP ports with the color pink if they are not identified. Of course, it only takes a click to completely halt a process. TCPEye Network Tools is an intriguing application for those users who prefer to keep their network under close watch. If you use this, nothing will slip between the cracks.