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Five free apps for the well-stocked net admin toolkit

Why would the list suggest Ethereal (the older version) instead of Wireshark (the current version and naming)?

https://www.wireshark.org/download.html

Ethereal is no longer in development, but still in beta.

https://www.wireshark.org/news/20060607.html

http://lantricks.com/ - I've always liked using the tools from LanTricks, mostly LanSpy.

I use the portable version of NetWorx to continuously monitor the simulataneous connections to 2 ISPs. 1 wired, the other Wlan.

What is missing, in my opinion, is some kind of utility to quickly enable / disable a dongle / nic to configure proper channeling of data.

I find this task a major hassle in Win 7 x64. Searching the net for the past month has not yielded any workable solution.

There is an android app that does everything the article describes called Wifi Analyzer, except for the cumulative data collection part. (Which is, to me, of dubious value anyway.)

I really do not appreciate having to download from sites, such as CNET, that require you to use their 'download tool." You might want to check for this next time. Each time I run into one of these I have to temporarily punch a hole in the firewalls so that their crap installer, with crap toolbar installers (among other crap), can run.

In the case of LAN SpeedTest, I'm damned if I can figure out where it installed the program, let alone how to LAN SpeedTest again. This is one more example of taking something useful and turning it into junk.