What's new in DU Meter 5.0?

Most important features in DU Meter 5.0

• DU Meter can discriminate between Internet and local LAN traffic, and monitor either of them. It can figure out what is Internet and what is LAN traffic automatically, or you can supply a list of IP subnetworks you wish to monitor or ignore.
• If your networking traffic is not free (or it starts to cost you over a certain monthly limit), DU Meter can calculate and display total cost of traffic during this billing period. Peak/off-peak rates are supported too.
• DU Meter can terminate all network connections as a result of an alert condition being met. E.g. you can specify that if monthly or daily traffic is over a certain limit, no more network traffic will be initiated.
• Alerts may be based on current monthly charges.
• Many bug fixes and improvements in stability and robustness - DU Meter can automatically recover now from database corruption (extremely rare).
• Still light system resources usage: Despite all these improvements, DU Meter still takes very little system resources

Display improvements

• Explorer deskband mode - DU Meter can attach itself to Windows taskbar for unobtrusive and prominent display.
• Full support for 64-bit Windows - including Sidebar and Windows taskbar integration.
• Several new types of graphs available, in addition to DU Meter "classic" mode.
• Numerical display can show either current throughput values, or total monthly traffic, or monthly charges (network traffic costs).
• Sub-pixel anti-aliased drawing for more visually pleasing display.
• Numerical display is highlighted if alert condition is in effect.
• "Click-through" mode - DU Meter window is visible and semi-translucent, and all mouse clicks go to the application below.

Reporting improvements

• Reports network data transfer costs if configured.
• Report file names can be automatically based on computer name or current date.
• Many other improvements and bug fixes.

DU Meter release history

August 31, 2010 :: What's new in DU Meter 5.02?

• Minor bug fixes, compatibility updates and cosmetic improvements.
• Better compatibility with non-ASCII user names.
• New "check for new version" component.

August 19, 2010 :: DU Meter 5.01 has been released.

This is the first release in the 5.x series. See the top of this page for the list of new features.
DU Meter 4.x updates history is available for your reference.

Upgrade Information

If you are a registered user of a previous version of DU Meter, we would like to remind you that this major upgrade is not free for everyone, and your serial number will not be accepted. You can purchase an upgrade license online, and deep discounts are available to our loyal users. You may also qualify for a free upgrade if you purchased DU Meter recently. You may also revert to the previous version if you so choose.

To upgrade from any previous version of DU Meter, it is sufficient to simply install the latest version on top of the previous one, without uninstalling. DU Meter will import accumulated statistics and retain user options.