{"id":650493,"date":"2013-04-04T01:26:54","date_gmt":"2013-04-04T05:26:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/betanews.com\/?p=141109"},"modified":"2013-04-04T01:26:54","modified_gmt":"2013-04-04T05:26:54","slug":"netconnectchoose-lives-up-to-its-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/650493","title":{"rendered":"NetConnectChoose lives up to its name"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"NirSoft\u2019s prolific Nir Sofer has announced his latest release,NetConnectChoose<\/a>. And it\u2019s a tiny tool which displays all your active internet connections, and allows you to choose one that Windows should use by default.<\/p>\n

But if that doesn\u2019t sound relevant to you, don\u2019t worry: despite the program being as compact as ever (a 60.6KB download, including the Help file), Softer has still managed to cram in some useful extra functionality, and NetConnectChoose will also display a host of statistics on every connection it finds.<\/p>\n

Browse the table and you\u2019ll find your network adaptor\u2019s MAC address, for instance. The length of time the connection has been running. Its current send and receive data speeds; the number of bytes and packets sent and received; your IP address, default gateway, name servers and DHCP server; your MTU setting, interface speed and more.<\/p>\n

This information isn\u2019t just static text, either. Leave the program open while you start a download, say, and you can watch as the \u201creceived data speed\u201d (and other figures) update in real time.<\/p>\n

Unusually for NirSoft tools, NetConnectChoose can be accessed from a system tray icon, allowing you to view this data — or change your default internet connection \u2013 in a couple of clicks.<\/p>\n

And if you need to refer to the connection details later, they can be saved as a report in various formats (TXT, CSV, HTML and more).<\/p>\n

Sofer reports that NetConnectChoose does have one significant issue. If you use it to change the default internet connection on a Windows XP system, then all existing TCP connections will stop working. That\u2019s obviously going to be a little annoying, if, say, you\u2019re half way through some bulky download, so use the program with care.<\/p>\n

NetConnectChoose<\/a>\u00a0doesn\u2019t have the same problem on Windows Vista, 7 or 8, though, where it works very well. The connection statistics it displays can be useful, too, and on balance it probably deserves a place in your troubleshooting toolkit.<\/p>\n

Photo Credit:<\/strong> Sergej Khakimullin<\/a>\/Shutterstock<\/a><\/p>\n

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