Bandwhich AlternativesNetwork Monitors and other similar apps like Bandwhich

Bandwhich is described as 'Terminal bandwidth utilization tool. Contribute to imsnif/bandwhich development by creating an account on GitHub' and is a Network Monitor in the network & admin category. There are five alternatives to Bandwhich for a variety of platforms, including Linux, BSD, Oracle Solaris, Xfce and Mac apps. The best Bandwhich alternative is Nethogs, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Bandwhich are iftop, netstat, nload and vnStat.

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Terminal bandwidth utilization tool. Contribute to imsnif/bandwhich development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Bandwhich alternatives page was last updated Apr 17, 2023
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    NetHogs is a small 'net top' tool. Instead of breaking the traffic down per protocol or per subnet, like most tools do, it groups bandwidth by process.

    21 Nethogs alternatives
    Nethogs screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Xfce

    Nethogs Features

    1.  Traffic Monitoring
    2.  Network activity

    Nethogs VS Bandwhich

    Is Nethogs a good alternative to Bandwhich?
     
    • Nethogs is the most popular Linux alternative to Bandwhich.

    • Nethogs is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Bandwhich.

    • Nethogs is Free and Open SourceBandwhich is also Free and Open Source
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    iftop does for network usage what top(1) does for CPU usage. It listens to network traffic on a named interface and displays a table of current bandwidth usage by pairs of hosts. Handy for answering the question "why is our ADSL link so slow?".

    9 iftop alternatives
    iftop screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Linux

    iftop Features

    1.  Network activity
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    iftop VS Bandwhich

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    Displays active TCP connections, ports on which the computer is listening, Ethernet statistics, the IP routing table, IPv4 statistics (for the IP, ICMP, TCP, and UDP protocols), and IPv6 statistics (for the IPv6, ICMPv6, TCP over IPv6, and UDP over IPv6 protocols).

    8 netstat alternatives

    License model

    • FreeProprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD

    netstat VS Bandwhich

    Is netstat a good alternative to Bandwhich?
     
    • netstat is the most popular Windows & Mac alternative to Bandwhich.

    • netstat is Free and ProprietaryBandwhich is Free and Open Source
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    nload is a console application which monitors network traffic and bandwidth usage in real time. It visualizes the in- and outgoing traffic using two graphs and provides additional info like total amount of transfered data and min/max network usage.

    13 nload alternatives
    nload screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Solaris

    nload Features

    1.  Command line interface
    2.  Graphs

    nload VS Bandwhich

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    vnStat is a console-based network traffic monitor for Linux and BSD that keeps a log of network traffic for the selected interface(s). It uses the network interface statistics provided by the kernel as information source.

    10 vnStat alternatives
    Demo CGI page

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD

    vnStat Features

    1.  Stats
    2.  Graphs
    3.  Network Graph
    4.  Network Statistics

    vnStat VS Bandwhich

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