LAN Monitor

LAN Monitor is a network monitoring application that shows current download and upload speed alongside plenty of other details.

The program comes with a floating graph that displays transfer rates in real time, but more information can be accessed via the main window.

For example, LAN Monitor shows the currently used network adapter, speed, sent and received bytes and duration.

The app shows network information too, including DNS server, client and gateway IPs.

Getting back to connection statistics, LAN Monitor keeps an eye on your transfers and presents real-time upload and download speed, as well as total sent and received bytes. The app displays the essential figures concerning the last connection too, again with stats concerning speed, sent and received bytes and duration.

There are no configuration options and this might be a problem because users aren’t allowed to do anything else besides adjusting graph’s transparency.

Last but not least, LAN Monitor can also synchronize the computer clock with an online server, but again, there are no configurable parameters to set up the connection and the used server.

The good thing is that LAN Monitor doesn’t affect system performance at all and works smoothly on all Windows versions out there. It doesn’t require administrator privileges on Windows 7 workstations.

To sum up, LAN Monitor makes for a decent app that shows essential network information. More customization options are however needed, especially because the app comes with a floating graph that shows real-time transfer details.