NetSNSOR

NetSNSOR is a internet connection checker and can execute files and/or play WAV if internet connection not found.

JDAutoSpeedTester 15.4

With this FREE program you can do regular internet speed tests in the background. It logs all your data and enables you to see at a glance what your speeds are doing over the course of the hour/day/week/month etc. It will test your download & upload speeds your ping times, packet loss and jitter.

SmartSniff 1.75

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. You can view the TCP/IP conversations in Ascii mode (for text-based protocols, like HTTP, SMTP, POP3 and FTP.) or as hex dump. (for non-text base protocols, like DNS)

Pingdom Desktop Notifier

The free Pingdom Desktop Notifier application runs in the background and notifies you if your website is down. It uses the Pingdom uptime monitoring service and lets you easily get started right inside the application.

The application connects to our control panel so you can get more information about an outage and access more Pingdom features such as our various reports.

Wireshark

Wireshark is the world’s foremost network protocol analyzer, and is the de facto (and often de jure) standard across many industries and educational institutions.

Wireshark development thrives thanks to the contributions of networking experts across the globe. It is the continuation of a project that started in 1998.

DownTester v1.20

DownTester allows you to easily test your Internet download speed in multiple locations around the world. It automatically test the download speed of the URLs that you choose, one after another. It moves to the next download URL after the specified number of seconds has been elapsed or after it downloads the specified amount of KB – just according to your preferences.

Net Runner

Net Runner is an accurate and fast performing analyzer for testing the performance of a network. It does this by communicating with its counterpart, Net Node. Firstly you install Net Node on other computers within the network. Net Node will then act as a server for Net Runner. You then instruct Net Runner to connect to a certain node and it will start testing. Depending on the options you chose, Net Runner will continue to test the performance of the network until all tests have been completed. The end result illustrates a speed vs. time graph.