January 11th, 2012· Fixed launching applications with a space in their name in notifications.
· Fixed painting legend for hourly graph in left to right mode.
· Fixed numeric desk band disappearance upon locking/unlocking the task bar.
· Added a few hidden settings: fixed rate unit, router community string, quota dialog instead of usage on hotkey.
· Added displaying time and sorting in dial-up session view.
· Reopening WinPCap adapter after resuming from stand by and hibernation.
· Added opening netstat on tray icon double click and opening usage report at single click.
· Added highlighting items exceeding quota for daily, weekly and monthly reports when appropriate quota is set.
· Fixed writing XLS files, now writing numbers as numbers, not as strings.
November 8th, 2011· Fixed establishing/dropping dial-up connection on 64-bit systems.
· Made several optimizations to display usage reports faster.
· Added NetWorx popup menu to the desk band as well.
· Fixed sorting weekly, monthly, dial and hourly reports when ascending sort was set.
· Using WinPCap instead of custom network driver for ignoring local traffic.
October 17th, 2011· Graph is no longer stranded if an auxilary monitor is disconnected.
· Fixed a few issues with recording traffic in the Ignore LAN traffic mode.
· Added Vietnamese languages and a few others have been updated.
· Fully 64-bit release including desk band now available on 64-bit systems.
August 25th, 2011· Fixed a problem with metering UDP traffic in the Ignore LAN traffic mode.
· Fixed incorrect alignment of certain user interface elements on systems with large fonts enabled.
August 22nd, 2011· Fixed refreshing dial-up sessions report that had no effect.
· Last opened tab in the usage reports is now preserved between views.
· Fixed choosing another user in the usage report did not update the view.
· Fixed graph visibility and size was not saved in some cases upon shutdown.
· Added showing user quota dialog upon the tray icon click.
· Added redialing a dial-up connection if it seems to hang.
· Added SNMP-capable router monitoring feature.
· Today and since traffic indicators at the general tab made configurable.
· Ping and traceroute tools accept URLs in addition to plain host names.
· A number of improvements to the user interface.
· Updated network drivers solve incompatibility with AVG and several other issues.
February 8th, 2011· Improved compatibility with systems with VirtualBox installed.
· Rarely used settings "Snap to desktop edges" and "Smooth spikes" moved to hidden settings.
· Added an option to show/hide animated usage bars.
· Added an option to choose appearance of the tray icon.
· Using a new network driver to filter out LAN traffic. If it works okay, NetWorx will soon be able to track usage per application.
January 27th, 2011· Added a configurable delay in the hidden settings that allows to postpone making a dial-up connection.
· Notification condition can now be set to less than 1 KB (previously 1 KB was the lower limit).
· If automatic dialing is turned on, also dial a connection upon resume.
· Dial-up connections are logged more accurately (log sessions established before NetWorx was started).
· Added a hidden setting to set number of seconds between minute ticks.
· Fixed failure to launch from notifications programs with command-line parameters.
· Added usage bars shown on the graph when fixed Y-scale is turned on.
· Fixed bridged connections monitoring that was broken in the previous version.
· Removed the Display Graph on Startup option. Instead NetWorx remembers last graph state.
· The Grid Lines in Reports option has moved to the hidden settings as rarely used.
· Added hotkeys for the graph and usage windows.
November 10th, 2010· Added initial configuration wizard shown upon first launch.
· Improved compatilibty with Online Armor Firewall.
· Added time zone offset in the hidden settings to allow users to compensate clock if their ISP uses a different time zone.
· Added dial-up summary on the At a Glance report.
· Fixed dial-up connection recording for the case when NetWorx was shut down before a dial-up connection has been disconnected.
October 9th, 2010· Fixed double-click mode that could not be set.
· Quota overuse notification no longer closes automatically.
· Removed workaround added in the previous version as in some cases it failed to detect real network adapters.
· Improved compatibility with ESet Smart Security and NetLimiter.
· Added the Arabic language and a few others updated.
September 28th, 2010· Added a quota on dial-up duration.
· Added a period indicator in the quota manager showing user's progress towards the quota.
· Double-click on the tray icon can now be configured.
· Added daily/weekly/monthly usage summary shown on the graph.
· Use a simple gray icon to indicate that NetWorx isn't monitoring the current network.
· Added selectable max rate unit (bytes/KB/MB/bit/Kbit/Mbit).
· Added additional remind option when quota is being used.
· Added workaround for most virtual adapters that should no longer interfere with NetWorx readings.
· Added an option to choose where to store user settings.
· Added choice of unit when exporting usage data.
· Added the name of a monitored interface to the system tray hint/tooltip.
· At a glance report now shows on-peak usage and off-peak usage along with a total.
June 22nd, 2010· Dial-up application launch list is made editable and accepts command-line parameters to be passed to applications.
· Added all-time/on-peak/off-peak as an extra condition in notifications.
· Currently active hour is now shown in the hour selection matrix.
· Added a workaround to prevent incorrect readings when installed with NetLimiter 3.
· Changed notification processing: if actions include dropping dial-up connections, the timer is reset when a new connection is dialed. Otherwise it caused premature occurrence of the event.
· Added import of IP address to be ignored (formats understood are IP address range, CIDR and individual IP addresses).
· Bandwidth rates shown under the graph are made monochrome (this can be reverted via a hidden setting).
· Added a hidden setting allowing to relocate the database to another folder.
· Updated language files and minor user interface tweaks.
· Added more shutdown options: power off, stand by, hibernate and restart.
April 10th, 2010· Added dial-up connection name and speed shown in the tray icon tooltip.
· Implemented correct usage recording when multiple users were logged on at once (fast user switching).
· Fixed excessive reading from the disk when showing daily/weekly/monthly usage on hovering tray icon was enabled (now updated once a minute).
· Updated language files and other minor tweaks.
February 23rd, 2010· Fixed a desk band issue that caused a crash on Windows 7 in certain circumstances.
· Fixed graph shown off-screen if the monitor where it had been displayed became unavailable.
· Fixed showing 'unavailable' in the graph title when the chosen adapter was not available at startup and became available later.
· Added password check when accessing quota settings when the password protection is enabled.
· Added network manager allowing to exclude certain networks from monitoring.
· Fixed an error in computations of monthly periods when the month started 29th, 30th or 31st.
January 17th, 2010· Fixed doubling outgoing traffic records on Vista/Seven with mobile broadband and "dial-up" ADSL.
· Fixed graph shown in taskbar when Frameless Graph Window in the hidden options was turned on.
· Added Portuguese (Portugal) language.
January 4th, 2010· Fixed a memory leak on Vista and Seven in early downloads of version 5.0.7.
· Fixed displaying month names when usage chart was in the non-stacked bars mode.
· Any broadcast traffic is ignored in the Ignore LAN traffic mode.
· Added Windows 7 locale bug workaround where the US date format was used instead of the one chosen in standards and formats.
· Added Norwegian, Slovak and Turkish languages.
December 14th, 2009· Added 'All wireless connections' monitoring option (Vista and higher).
· Fixed inability to select some network connections on Windows Vista and Seven.
· Added graph fading out when the mouse is hovering and the click-through mode is turned on.
· Added a few new preferences in the hidden settings (press Ctrl + O in the settings window).
November 11th, 2009· Custom report is shown in consistent order with the daily, monthly and weekly reports.
· Traceroute window is now resizeable.
· Tray icon indicates the status if the current adapter becomes unavailable.
· Fixed small errors shown in daily/weekly/monthly/custom reports when on-peak or off-peak view was turned on.
· Usage data can now be reset fully, including data received from other computers during synchronisation.
· Added last 24-hour quota and usage display. This works similarly to the daily quota/usage display, but instead uses a sliding 24-hour window in calculations.
October 20th, 2009· Added quick access to dial-up from the main menu.
· Added option to choose between bar chart and stacked bar chart.
· Usage accounting made more accurate. Previously there could be a small error when recording usage data on hour's boundary.
· Fixed availability of minute ticks option as it should not be available when axes are turned off.
· Fixed quota usage which was miscalculated when using a dual on/off peak quota (was broken in v5.0.4).
· Added Finnish, Czech, Croatian, Dutch and Japanese languages.
October 2nd, 2009· Added automatically launched applications when a dial-up connection is established.
· Fixed a problem in usage synchronisation when the computer could sync with itself doubling the usage.
· Enhanced on/off-peak timetable allowing to specify a day of the week.
· Tray icon tooltip and hint can now be configured separately.
· Minor user interface changes and improvements.
· Added Bulgarian and Ukrainian languages.
September 1st, 2009· Added drop-down month list in custom reports to quickly access monthly usage.
· Added import of DU Meter Backup files (*.sqbackup) and NetMeter files (*.csv) under the Restore button in the usage report.
· Added IP address manager to exclude custom networks as local traffic.
· Short-term notifications now can apply in a wider range. Now 'more' conditions trigger even if they occur before time elapses
· Playing a windows sound when quota overused message shown.
· Some fixes related to sleep and hibernation issues when the Ignore LAN option was turned on.
· Volume unit multiplier made customisable (1000 or 1024 bytes per KB).
· On/off-peak hours menu item in the usage report now causes the tray tooltip to display on/off-peak usage info accordingly.
August 23rd, 2009· Fixed desk band not picked colour settings after a shell restart.
· Fixed incorrect traffic accounting on Windows 7 when the Ignore LAN option was turned on.
· Fixed launching more than one NetWorx instance in Fast User Switching environment.
· Netstat now saves its settings between sessions.
· Netstat made IPv6 aware (shows IPv6 connections and listening ports).
· Added hints to on/off peak hour display to make it easier to use.
· Added ability to travel along the graph up to 1 hour back using the arrow keys.
· Added password protection feature. Allows to password-protect access to the settings, resetting usage data and quitting the application.
· Added Hungarian, Italian, Portuguese, Swedish, Spanish languages.
August 5th, 2009· Added a language selector shown upon first launch.
· Fixed Explorer crash on Vista/Windows 7 when desk band is turned on.
· Added Chinese, German, Polish languages.
August 5th, 2009· Added multilingual support with three initial languages built-in (English, French, Russian).
· Fixed finalisation order in the data collector that could have led to an Access Violation error on shutdown.
· The network driver enabling NetWorx to distinguish LAN traffic now only starts when the Ignore LAN option is turned on (thus saving system resources).
· Usage synchronisation module is now only starts when the relevant option is turned on (thus causing fewer firewall prompts).
· Desk band made compatible with Windows 7.
· Ping and trace route windows made non-modal, allowing to open them simultaneously with other windows.
July 25th, 2009· In the 'Ignore LAN' mode traffic was accounted wrongly (removed debug code multiplying by 100). Users running v4.9.9 are urged to upgrade.
July 24th, 2009· Fixed inability to shrink the graph in the numeric mode to reasonable dimensions.
· In the Speed Meter added a real "average" computed over the time lap. The old 5-second average renamed to current rate.
· Added an 'at a glance' report showing recent usage broken down by users.
· Added an ability to distinguish local and Internet traffic (IPv4 and IPv6 aware).
· Various fixed and enhancements (usage synchronisation, database operations, error handling) to improve stability.
July 3rd, 2009· Added access to dial-up connection properties.
· Fixed a critical issue with automatic updates. In some circumstances it might have caused a number of repeating reqeusts causing bandwidth wastage. Upgrade to this version is recommended.
June 28th, 2009· Added peer-to-peer usage data syncronisation with other NetWorx instances on the network.
· Added dialing a connection on start-up (that can be used to establish an initial dial-up, ADSL or mobile broadband connection).
· Several minor user interface enhancements.
June 8th, 2009· Fixed Cancel button. Previously it did not revert the options changed in the settings Window.
· Fixed oversized hourly graph when the window is maximized.
· Showing totals in the hourly usage chart, plus performance enhancements.
· Hopefully fixed mad readings on Windows Vista by ignoring virtual QoS adapters.
· Improved handling of single/double click on the tray icon (double-click does not launch action assigned to single click).
· The 'Quota Overused' message now includes the actual percentage reached.
May 3rd, 2009· The Speed Meter can now be controlled via automation.
· Fixed blank hourly chart when numeric graph was chosen.
· Reverted printing numeric rates on plain background. Computed colours sometimes gave adverse visual effects.
April 25th, 2009· Graph labels are now compactly formatted (K/M).
· Added purely numeric graph display.
· Hourly report made sortable.
· Tray icon now has got static title if 'Hide inactive icons' Windows option is on.
· Quota now shows allowance left in addition to used and total.
· Added 'Enable Graph Click-Through' menu item (visible only if graph is being displayed and is semi-transparent).
· Graph color selectors now offer a better choice of colors.
· Added option to automatically bring up the graph when a certain condition is met.
April 21st, 2009· Added option to display either a polyline or a histogram in the real-time graph.
· Added 'remind me in' option in message about overused quota to make it less annoying.
April 18th, 2009· Quota settings are now saved when window closed.
· Fixed the hourly report when last hour of the day might have been shown wrongly.
· The hourly report highlights on/off-peak hours.
April 13th, 2009· Fixed quota and weekly/monthly report computations.
· Days 29, 30 and 31 are now allowed again as the first day of the month.
· A number of minor improvements: graph opacity can be adjusted with +/- numpad keys; fixed the remaining days counter in the quota; fixed a problem with hourly report (not all hours were displayed).
April 12th, 2009· Monthly, weekly and daily reports now include a grand total.
· Added a basic quota mechanism allowing to set a usage limit and keep an eye on it.
· Added an alert mechanism when quota is used up by a set percent.
· Added UL/DL volume to the hourly rate display.
· The notification window now pops up topmost.
April 10th, 2009· Fixed on-peak/off-peak hour settings. Now only on-peak hours need to be entered. Off-peak is computed automatically.
· Monthly total shown in the system tray icon's tooltip is now computed properly when the month starts not from the 1st.
April 2nd, 2009· In the desk band placed on a vertical taskbar numbers are shown underneath. In the deskband placed on a horizontal taskbar numbers are shown at the left as before.
· Usage data stored on a per-hour basis. On-peak and off-peak hours can be configured for an accurate account.
· Beginning of the month and beginning of the week can be customized if it is needed.
· Added a hourly bandwidth rate report. You can see your average data transfer rate in recent days and hours.
March 22nd, 2009· Fixed possible crash if NetWorx was started automatically before the Windows shell was fully initialized.
· Added 'Apply settings' button.
· Redesigned desk band made tidy and compact.
March 6th, 2009· Fixed a race condition that might have caused the application to lock up on startup.
· Cosmetic enhancements to the usage chart showing daily, weekly and monthly usage reports.
March 6th, 2009· Showing usage reports on the tray icon's double-click.
· ICMP packets in the ping and traceroute utilities are now sent with a payload. Previously ping and traceroute could have failed in some networks.
· The usage graph can now be made click-through when semi-transparent.
· Fixed incorrect saving/restoring the graph when it was shown without a title bar.
February 23rd, 2009· Added a volume unit option (choosing among automatic, MB, KB and bytes).
· Fixed a potential issue in the installation script that might have led to inability to install NetWorx on some computers.
January 19th, 2009· Fixed a sudden reporting jump that could occur if a network adapter becomes temporarily unavailable when the system enters a new power state.
· Added a shell extension known as 'desk band'. It integrates with your taskbar and provides a handy tool to keep an eye on bandwidth usage. This extension is currently available on 32-bit editions of Windows only.
January 8th, 2009· Fixed zero-length duration records that could sometimes be written to dial-up log.
· Added unit selector (bytes/s or bits/s).
· Added gradient to the graph.
January 8th, 2009· Added option to enable/disable grid lines on graph.
· Another potential issue with error message 'DB is locked' fixed.
· Daily records are displayed in reversed order with newest on the top (as it was with weekly and monthly records).
· Dial-up session journal added. All dial-up connections are now logged.
· Long date format display is no longer available.
· On-line version checking (automatic update) added.
· Fixed problem with garbage displayed instead of dial-up duration in the system tray.
January 8th, 2009· Fixed usage report sorting.
· Usage database optimized for performance.
January 8th, 2009· Bitmap images can be used as graph's background.
· Smooth graph option added.
· Support of multiple users on the same machine added.
· Per-user and combined usage reporting added.
· Windows 98/ME/NT systems are no longer supported.
· Portable version available.
January 8th, 2009· Fixed possible error messages when the graph was undersized.
January 8th, 2009· Y-axis on the graph can be fixed or automatically scaled.
· Popup menu is also available from the graph in addition to the tray icon.
January 8th, 2009· Fixed grid lines display in custom reports.
· Graph can be shown in the system tray.
January 8th, 2009· Usage report can be sorted.
January 8th, 2009· Usage displayed when mouse hovers over the tray icon.
January 8th, 2009· New customizable usage graph.
· Automatic refresh in netstat.
· Fixed occasional wrong graph positioning.
· Backup/restore usage stats.
January 8th, 2009· Fixed doubled reporting on Windows Vista with multiple connections monitored.
· Dynamically plugged/unplugged adapters support.
· Fixed sudden reporting jump by 4/8 GB.
January 8th, 2009· Fixed wrong usage reporting with some VPN connections.
· Notifications can now be fired by either or both received and sent traffic counters.
January 8th, 2009· Completely reworked release.
· Advanced netstat tool showing processes associated with network connections.
· Improved notifications.
· The software is now freeware
January 8th, 2009· Minor improvements.
January 8th, 2009· Enhanced notification conditions
· Configurable system tray tooltip
· Minor optimizations
January 8th, 2009· Minor bug fixes.
· New features: ping, traceroute, netstat
· Minor GUI changes
January 8th, 2009· Fully rebuilt version 1.0. New engine, new interface.
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