Desktop Internet traffic measurement software [closed]

Can you recommend a robust Internet traffic measurement tool you had experience with?

Robustness is important because I've used a couple of such tools but ended up uninstalling them because of network connectivity problems they caused.

Thanks!

Edit: I don't have my own router, so I suppose SNMP-based software is not an option here. A live indicator of overall Internet traffic (all but local network) would be just fine.

Try DU Meter.

The question about how you intend to measure the internet traffic. I will suggest a couple of options since I do not know your specific target scenario.

One decent internet monitoring tool is Snort (http://snort.org). It provides nice intrusion detection and can monitor the traffic hitting the internet quite nicely. Snort is great for intrussion detection but it is not so much a connectivity tool as it is a security tool. So this might not be the perfect tool for you.

Another good application that does this is MRTG...

MRTG is an excellent program that for stuff like monitoring your routers, switches etc. It is free and it has the ability to monitor a great many things. It will connect to the SNMP port of your router and you should be able to get all kinds of useful data about your connection at that point.

http://oss.oetiker.ch/mrtg/

Now if you are trying to monitor your internet connection to see who you are talking to, you can always use the "Netstat" command from the command line or you can use TCPView from sysinternals to show you visually what your system is talking to over the wire.