AirParrot is a pretty easy-to-use and practical wireless network application that allows us to seamlessly send/sync computer screen to other media receivers (and vice versa) in the same WLAN through wireless connection. This enables us to watch movies, play games or watch demonstrations on a larger screen or any screen.

NetWorx is a visual broadband traffic monitor and statistical software from Australia, with by far the most complete functions on the market. It has many practical features, including the broadband speed test, Internet traffic monitoring & restricting, broadband usage statistics by month/week/day, time statistics of surfing the Internet, detection & alarm of broadband traffic anomaly, and so on. The statistics report can be exported as a variety of different formats (such as HTML, MS Word and Excel) for further analysis.

Two possible situations make you want to take a look at the users information in your local area network (LAN):

1. The speed of Internet connection becomes slower and slower, and it was no use giving many tries like modifying DNS, optimizing network
2. To check whether there is a potential attacker

This time, we can use Wireless Network Watcher - a tiny and free local wireless/wired network connection scanner & viewer from NirSoft.

BWMeter is a tiny but powerful broadband/traffic monitor and controller based on WinpkFilter network drivers. It can perform real-time measure and control to any Internet/Network traffic through your computer. Meanwhile, it visually shows them in the way of chart.

NETGEAR genie is a free cross-platform router managing, monitoring and repairing software. It enables you to easily make a remote access to your home router via PC or smartphone, so as to view and manage all devices connecting to your home network. And, it can automatically repair some common network problems.