There are tons of free, shareware and paid tools available to monitor your network. PortReporter and PR-Parser is a third-party free toolset you can download from the link given in the Direct Hit box. PortReporter is a Windows service that does the logging and PR-Parser is a log-analyzer component. To install them, extract the ZIP files separately to temporary folders and run the 'setup' file there.
By default, this service is not started, so run 'services. msc' and start this service. Also set it to Automatic. Leave PortReporter running for about one hour, while using the system for other Internet activities, to allow for proper logs.
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In the screenshots below, we are using different log files to highlight different features. One important feature we found strangely missing is an option to print or e-mail the log entries or analysis. However, all the screens have a Copy option, which can be used to paste the contents into any program and print or e-mail from there.
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Sujay V Sarma