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NetworkCountersWatchbmon
Free

Freeware from NirSoft; it may not be sold or bundled with commercial products.

 Free

Free and open source under BSD and MIT licenses.

Windows Linux, Command line
  • Per-interface byte, packet, error and discard counters
  • Live upload and download speed
  • Interactive curses interface with live graphs
  • Scriptable text output
  • Windows XP is not supported
  • Showing all interfaces can list several with identical counters
  • Terminal only
  • Development is slow compared with newer tools
Downloadable app Downloadable app
Closed source Open source
License: Freeware License: BSD-2-Clause AND MIT
No account needed No account needed
Not stated if it works offline Works offline

Checked October 8, 2026

Checked September 24, 2026

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