A freeware utility that will assist you with basic networking tasks. It is very useful at bandwidth calculation, IP address-related calculations, and password generation.

Argus is a comprehensive data transfer system for simultaneous multiple-line work in Dial-up and TCP/IP networks. The main task of the Argus system is automatic data reception and transmission.

Take Argus for a spin to see what it's really capable of.

EAZ School Proxy Switcher makes the process of switching between your school proxy network and your home network so easy.

School staff who take their laptops back and forth between school and home often find that they constantly have to go into the bowels of Internet Explorer to enable or disable their school proxy, but with this freeware program the task is much quicker and simpler.

Ping Test Easy is a handy, powerful, visual ping utility for system administrator to check network connection.

It can save IP addresses and hosts name, intuitive interface shows the route, hosts, packet loss percentage, min/max/average response times. The ping results can be copy to the clipboard.

NetShareAdd is a little Win32 console utility that will let you create LAN shares on remote PCs.

This is a little tool to make network shares on remote computers. So the sysadmin must change the workstation to make some shares for a new user in his Windows NT network.

TCP Client enables you toconnect to any host on any TCP port, send data, and read the remote reply. It also remembers what the last host/port you used was.

Enter the host name or IP address, and the port. Click connect. When you connect, the Send button will turn green.

Alchemy Helpdesk is a software helping IT groups of the small and medium-size companies handle users technical support requests. If a user experiences problems with the hardware or software on his workplace, he/she creates a Request in the helpdesk software and describes the problem in that request. The IT staff later can assign the request to a certain team member, then verify the status of a request and check if it was fixed.

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If you need to flush your DNS cache then DNS Flusher is the right program for you.

The EggKey Gateway application was designed to be a software that will allow authorized clients to use your Internet connection. Working as a proxy server between your clients and your router or modem.

All the clients will receive a private IP address (192.168.11.xxx), so they won't be able to connect to the Internet by themselves.

It has been suggested in voice over IP that an appropriate choice of the distribution used in modeling the delay jitters, can improve the play-out algorithm.

In this paper, we propose a tool using which, one can determine, at a given instance, which distribution model best explains the jitter distribution. GammaPing is a tool for basic PING function as a base to perform the scan.

Marx Query DNS allows you to query multiple DNS servers with a specific domain name and view the response.

The IP Address Identifier application was designed to be a small, free, easy to use program to quickly find your IP address.

Foundstone CredDigger is a tool that attempts to gather data to assist with penetration testing on a corporate network by determining every host on which a given set of user credentials is valid, while also building a database of all user ID's through various means and protocols.

This software was created particularly for penetration testers or network administrators who want to test their security.

Even a network superhero like you has blind spots. You’re in complete command of your network devices, but the users under your protection are always uncovering hidden bottlenecks between sites. How are those remote sites communicating with each other out in the network – and is that Web traffic performing well between San Francisco and Sao Paolo? Cisco IP SLA holds the secrets, and with SolarWinds free IP SLA Monitor you can master them.

Cisco developed IP SLA technology as part of their IOS software, enabling you to analyze IP service levels for network-based applications and services. IP SLA technology measures the round trip time (RTT) of network services and communications between devices to give you a better measurement of your network’s true performance. Implementing IP SLA commands manually can be challenging, but SolarWinds IP SLA Monitor does the heavy lifting for you.

DUN AC, or Dialup Networking Auto-Connection, is a small utility that monitors your Dialup or Broadband connection and re-connects you immediately if you get disconnected.

This is especially handy for those whom are with ISP's such as Freeserve that have "cut off" points of 2 hours.

"easy Look at Net" is a free and simple ports scanner, packets sniffer and web-page source loader.

Multithread ports scanner and packets sniffer specifically made to scan opened TCP ports, packets are filtered by incoming and outgoing, by IP addresses, ports and protocols - TCP, UDP, ICMP, IGMP.

Anti Netcut Lite protects you from ARP poisoning while working on shared computer networks. This useful application will prevent Internet connection failure caused by some programs

WinPing is a windowed ping utility. Different colored bars for the different RTT times will be shown.

The DeSleeper application was designed to be a Wake-On-Lan tool that allows off or sleeping machines to be started remotely, but is difficult to make work in many network environments. This is especially true for desktop machines in corporate networks. Also in these environments machines are often left on when not in use so they can be accessed remotely.

These tools will provide workarounds to make use of Wake-On-Lan easier, more reliable, and upto security standards. Hopefully then more users will configure their machines to shutdown, sleep or hibernate and conserve power when not in use, and still feel confident they'll have access when necessary.

When you run a server at home, you'll need to know your Internet address. That's easy enough to find when you run an internal PCI or external USB modem but, if you connect to the internet through a router, your internet IP address is not so easy to find. This is where IPLookup comes in to help you.

The usual solution is to call on the services of an external website which will return your IP address to you when asked. These services are generally fine but they do usually impose a limit on how often you can make a request - usually no more frequently than once every 10 minutes.

ShareWatch is a software that will allow you to see who is connected to a computer and what files they are accessing.

Have you ever wondered why your hard drive or modem is active, but you aren't doing anything to cause it to be active? It is possible a remote user is accessing your computer.

UD Meter is an easy-to-use, smart and reliable utility that provides an accurate account of the data which is flowing through your computer's network connection at any given moment. This readout is presented in both numerical and graphical format, in real time.

There are many reasons why you might want to monitor your network activity. Watching your data transfer rates can be very enlightening as you download a web page, email, or a software application.

Free network monitor for Windows based networks with user and device tracking, monitors and network search capabilities. DomainScan also supports WMI and SNMP queries.

Everything is presented in an easy-to-learn user interface, and because of the fact that DomainScan is using existing network technologies, no client software needs installing.

Advanced Lan Scanner is a lightweight, easy-to-use, highly configurable and very fast network scanner.

Advanced Lan Scanner uses multithreading technique, that gives it ability to scan more than 1000 elements per second! If used to scan ports, Advanced Lan Scanner can scan all 65536 ports in less that minute! Also, fast scan is not only Advanced Lan Scanner good feature.

The EZPing application will give you the ease of a graphical user interface (GUI) to do the job.

Here are some key features of "EZPing LAN Edition":