Plug-and-Play Monitor is an experimental tool which displays plug-and-play notifications from the system. To start monitoring, select a device type from the drop-down list or tick Monitor all device types and click Start. If a network adapter is plugged or unplugged while the program monitors Network Adapters, the program should display the name of the adapter.

SoftPerfect Personal Firewall is a free network firewall designed to protect your PC against attacks from the Internet or via a local area network. It offers customizable security using user-defined rules for packet filtering. The program supports a learning mode, multiple network adapter configurations, non-IP protocol filtering and comes with a set of predefined rules. Additional features include password protection, logging and more.

NetworkGazer allows you to lookup network shares, event logs or retrieve Internet history, computer ids, IP to MAC address to user, disk drives, processor(s), network adapter(s) and operating system data on network-connected computers. View all schedule tasks (not only AT assigned jobs) on remote pc and what programs are associated actual open ports. Do remote shutdown/reboot or wake a PC with WakeOnLan (Wake-On-Lan) and network documenting.

Simplified, agentless, web-based network inventory software for the enterprise. Designed for Windows system administrators, NetPoint is equipped with automated system discovery, tracks 550+ properties for 17 hardware and software components, and can be deployed in a matter of minutes. Here are a few components NetPoint tracks that have been installed or uninstalled: BIOS, Disk Drive, Memory, Operating System, Processor, Program, and much more.

BySoft Network Monitor 1.2 displays all kind of information in real time (1-second update) about all network adapters (network cards, RAS connections, virtual cards, server monitoring for web hosting) in your system.

Traffaret is the easy to use tool that monitors bandwidth usage and other the Internet related parameters. Traffaret allows you to quickly and easily set up and run a monitoring network connection characteristics: speed, transferred data, opened connections and so on. It is a good idea to run Traffaret before you start your Internet connection.

SMB File Sniffer allows you to: - log SMB file operations with two levels of logging; - intercept files transmitted within a LAN by SMB protocol (Windows and non-Windows servers are supported); - select one of the network adapters, installed on your system, to log the packet stream of this certain adapter; - collect the statistics of the lost packets on the following levels: network adapter, NIS internal driver, and application level.

For the majority of computer support desks, a large proportion of the time is spent collecting information about the clients system in order to diagnose the problem. Custom built 'Monkey's will retrieve an entire system configuration from any remote machine and email the report back to you instantly in XML or Text format, dramatically reducing the time you spend tracking problems. For a complete overview see www.nitrotech.co.uk/monkey.html

CommView for WiFi is an edition of CommView designed for capturing and analyzing network packets on wireless 802.11a/b/g networks. It gathers information from the wireless adapter and decodes the analyzed data. With CommView for WiFi you can see the list of network connections, IP statistics, and examine individual packets. Packets can be decrypted utilizing user-defined WEP or WPA-PSK keys and are decoded down to the lowest layer.