Down2Home monitors your day-to-day bandwidth transfers. It logs up- and download volumes and organizes the data in nice 2D/3D charts. In addition, it shows your average and maximum download speed. You can also export the data for further manipulation or reporting. Uses a database to store the data - useful for long term monitoring and reporting per week, month or even year. The program runs in the system tray.
Limitations: Windows 9x,NT,ME users will need MDAC. XP and 2K users should need nothing else.
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