AdeeboMeter

AdeeboMeter · free Windows network troubleshooting tool

Is it me
or the network?

AdeeboMeter answers in one glance. A local-first network troubleshooter for Windows — no cloud account, no admin rights — that watches your PC, your Wi-Fi, your provider and the internet — and tells you, in one sentence, what's wrong and what to do.

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Version 1.1.3 · Windows 10 & 11 · free · no administrator rights

See it in 30 seconds

Recorded on a real Windows laptop. Both videos play from this site, so nothing loads from YouTube unless you click through.

AdeeboMeter in 30 seconds · no sound · Watch on YouTube ›
The full tour · 1 min 23 s · with sound: monitoring, What's wrong?, 100+ tools, the Traffic Lab, the time machine and the security checkup · Watch on YouTube ›

No cloud. No telemetry.
Never listens.

Every packet it sends is listed — and you can switch each one off.

One glance.

Five dots from your PC to the internet. The first one that isn't green is where the trouble starts — and the fix is right there in plain English.

The whole story.

Pick the problem and it investigates for you. 100+ engineer's tools, found by typing. Follow any app from your PC to the server. Replay any minute of the last days. Every fact says where it came from.

Yours alone.

No account, no server, no admin rights. A penny of CPU in the background. Readable source, built by the compiler already inside Windows.

The Theory of Everything

Every part, in plain words.

Swipe through it, use the arrow keys, or take it with you.

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The Theory of Everything · version 1.1.3

AdeeboMeter

Is it me or the network?

A small, quiet Windows companion. One glance tells you whether your PC, your Wi-Fi, your provider, DNS or the internet is the problem — and what to do about it.

No cloud. No telemetry. Never listens.
Every packet it sends is listed — and you can switch each one off.

ADEEBOMETER
Your provider is slow right now — it's not you.
CPU7%
Memory58%
Router3 ms
Internet184 ms

The corner widget — faded, never takes a click

Created by Adeeb Khan01
The idea in one breath

Stop guessing. Get one sentence.

Task Manager

Is something eating my CPU?

Command prompt

ipconfig, netsh wlan… what do these numbers mean?

ping · tracert

Some hops time out. Is that bad?

Guess

"Must be the Wi-Fi." Restart the router. Hope.

↓

"Your Wi-Fi signal dropped to 38% when the calls started stuttering. Move closer to the access point."

AdeeboMeter does all of that for you, quietly, every second — and puts the fix right after the finding.

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It lives in two places

A glance, or the whole story.

Always on · penny-light

The corner widget

  • Faded to 30% (up to 100%), small or bigger; brightens when you hover
  • Click-through — whatever is underneath keeps working
  • Folds into a tiny chip when a window covers the corner
  • CPU, memory, disk, network and a verdict in one sentence
On demand · tray icon or Ctrl+Alt+A

The engineer view

  • Overview · Monitor · Investigate
  • Network story · Time machine · Learn
  • Hover any ? cursor for a plain-English explanation
  • Esc, minimise or X = back to the corner — memory given back
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Design

Five promises the whole design follows

¢

A penny app

A few dozen tiny jobs a minute. Anything heavy runs only while you look at it, and stops by itself.

◎

Never listens

No server, account or update check. It checks at every start that it opens no listening port.

✓

No admin rights

Only what Windows shows a normal user. If Windows says no, that part simply doesn't show.

{}

One readable file

One C# file, built by the compiler already inside Windows. Nothing to install, nothing hidden.

☺

A companion

Every message has a friendly and a plain version. The fix always comes right after the joke.

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The big picture

One heart, two faces.

Windows CPU · memory · disk counters · adapters · TCP/UDP tables · Wi-Fi API · event log · DNS · ping · ARP read only Monitor — the only thing that always runs Sampler · every 1 s Probe · every 2–10 s a fresh "Snap" every second Corner widget paints the Snap as an image, faded, click-through Engineer view built when opened, destroyed when you leave

The screen only ever reads finished snapshots — painting can never slow the Monitor down.

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The life of AdeeboMeter

From start to exit, nothing left behind.

1

Start

One copy only. Loads settings. Refuses to run if it is listening on any port.

2

Run

The Monitor's two threads start. Tray icon and corner widget appear.

3

Open

Tray click or Ctrl+Alt+A. The Monitor speeds up while you look.

4

Back

Esc, minimise, X or Back to corner. The view closes and gives its memory back.

5

Exit

Tray → Exit. Helper tools die with the app (a Windows job object); temporary captures are deleted.

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The heart · Monitor

Two threads do all the watching.

Sampler — every second

  • CPU, memory, disk and network bytes
  • TCP/IP health: retransmits, resets, failed connections, unreachables, UDP drops
  • Every 10 s it judges: OK / Busy / Act, and one sentence
  • Optional: one line to today's 7-day history file

Probe — every 2 to 10 seconds

  • Router ping · internet + DNS check (cache skipped)
  • Adapters, VPN, DNS server, MTU — changes become events
  • Gateway spoof watch: the router's MAC must not change
  • Wi-Fi signal, roams, drops — and Windows' reason for a drop
  • Apps and connections · Teams calls get the fast pace
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How the verdict is found

The first dot that isn't green is where trouble starts.

PC
Your PCCPU, memory, disk
LAN
Wi-Fi / LANrouter ping, signal
ISP
ISP / VPNfirst public hop
DNS
DNSa real lookup
NET
Internet1.1.1.1 / 8.8.8.8

Everything after it is a victim, not a cause

If your provider is slow, DNS and the internet look slow too. AdeeboMeter blames the first broken link, not the last one.

Cause hints line up when things happened

"TCP retransmits (12/s) started when Wi-Fi signal fell to 40%." Click a dot to jump to the page that explains it.

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Engineer view · tour

Eight places. Everything you'd dig out of a dozen tools.

Overview

The verdict, router, internet, DNS and traffic right now, what needs attention, today.

Monitor

Connections (Sniff into Wireshark), your Wi-Fi or cable, what's running, live capture.

Investigate

What's wrong? finds the broken layer; or pick the problem. Check a destination, health check.

Security

One checkup: 42 defensive checks of this PC, your network and your sites. Reads only; you fix.

Network story

Follow an app from your PC to the server, box by box, and time each step.

Time machine

Replay any minute, the week as a heatmap, data usage, calls, new devices.

Learn

46 topics, two lines and a picture each — from "the layers" to svchost.

Toolbox

100+ tools in four sections — Network, Devices, Traffic Lab, Windows — with quick buttons. Type to find one.

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Investigate

Start from the problem, not the protocol.

What's wrong? - or six questions people ask

  • What's wrong? - layer by layer, stops at the first broken one
  • The internet is slow
  • A website or app won't open
  • Calls freeze or sound robotic
  • I keep disconnecting
  • It works at home, not on VPN or at work
  • My PC is slow

Each runs the checks AdeeboMeter already has and answers in the same four parts: Finding · What I observed · Not established · Next test. When the header turns amber or red, Investigate › next to it opens the one that fits.

Every fact says where it came from

  • measured AdeeboMeter timed it itself
  • Windows-reported Windows said so
  • seen in packets Wireshark decoded it
  • inferred a conclusion from the others
  • unavailable this PC doesn't let us see it

Details (top right) adds raw values and the second each one was read.

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Security

One checkup. 42 checks. You decide what to fix.

This PC (27)

Antivirus, firewall, BitLocker, Secure Boot, UAC, updates, supported Windows, SMBv1, RDP and NLA, open ports, added root certificates, hosts file, proxy, unsigned startup, risky scheduled tasks, Credential Guard, memory integrity, screen lock, open Wi-Fi.

Your network (11)

Wi-Fi security, DNS that rewrites answers, https decrypted on the way, ARP spoofing signs, a second DHCP server, router UPnP, admin page over http, Telnet / FTP, DNS leak on VPN, new devices.

Your sites (4)

Certificate expiry, old TLS still accepted, security headers, SPF / DKIM / DMARC.

A scorecard, problems first

Risky · worth a look · good · info. Click a check to run it again; Copy the whole card for a ticket.

Every fix is yours

"Open the setting" goes to the Windows screen or your router's page. AdeeboMeter changes nothing.

Defensive only

Reads settings, no admin. Never tries a password, never looks you up in a breach database, never scans beyond your router.

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Toolbox

100+ tools. Type what you need.

Path & routing

MTU per hop, MTR, the way back, which route, your gateway (VRRP / HSRP), routing protocols on your segment, IPv6.

Is it reachable?

Port test, many ports, every IP behind a name, HTTP builder, STUN, RDP and LDAP / AD, mail with STARTTLS, RADIUS, TACACS+.

Traffic Lab

Build test traffic: ICMP size / DF / TTL, UDP and TCP payloads, ARP, DHCP options, test trap, NetFlow, iperf3. Capped, one target.

Names & time

dig (HTTPS, DNSSEC, TLSA, over DoH) and the delegation from the root, encrypted DNS, hosts file, NTP.

Network devices

SNMP v2c / v3, find devices and their names, shared folders, ssh / scp commands ready to copy, ping sweep.

Windows

802.1X, domain controllers, Group Policy, certificates, PFX, CSR and hashes, firewall rules, failed services.

The PC (in Health)

Memory, disk, heat, frozen windows, leaks, crashes, battery - and Quick tidy, which shows where; you do it.

Always the client

Runs only when you press Run. Never listens, never logs in, never sends a routing packet.

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SNMP

Ask a switch or router - in plain words.

Views that answer questions

Snapshot · interfaces with problems first and what changed since your last run · traffic · CPU · LLDP · sensors · find a MAC · VLANs · PoE · LAG · printer · UPS.

Walk anything

Any OID or MIB name, up to 2,000 values, paced - rebuilt into tables joined by index, the useful columns first.

Your own MIBs

Drop a vendor's .mib files in a folder. A strict reader indexes names, tables and descriptions once; nothing in a MIB is ever run.

Search, then walk

Type temperature, optic or fan - matching objects with their description, one click walks that table.

v2c and v3

No auth, auth (MD5 / SHA-1 / SHA-256) and AES-128 privacy - MD5 and SHA-1 keys checked against RFC 3414's own test vectors, SHA-256 against an independent computation. Masked, kept for the session only.

Read-only, always

GET and GETBULK only. It never sets a value and never listens for traps. A column it couldn't read says n/a - never 0.

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Network story · Learn

Follow one app from your PC to the server.

Teams → Windows (socket) → Wi-Fi → Router → Provider → Internet → Microsoft

Ready when you open it

The busiest app is picked for you; nothing to type. Click a box for what happens there.

Where the time goes

Name · connect · lock · first byte, as one bar. Real packets with Wireshark.

Learn in a glance

Two lines, a picture, and one "if it goes wrong" line. People who want the textbook read it elsewhere.

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Your Wi-Fi · your cable

What your radio and your cable are really doing.

Radio

Exact access point, 2.4 / 5 / 6 GHz, channel, width (20–160 MHz), Wi-Fi generation, signal in % and dBm, roaming help (802.11k/v/r) — read from the access point's own beacons.

Who else is on the air

How many access points share or overlap your channel, and how busy the air is.

Windows' diary

Every Wi-Fi drop in 24 h with the reason Windows recorded; DHCP trouble.

Cable

Negotiated speed (100 Mb/s = bad-cable sign) and Find my switch port: switch, port, VLAN from LLDP/CDP. Nothing is sent.

WHO ELSE IS ON THE AIR · 5 GHZ
363 442 484 1001 1492 1571

your channel overlaps yours others — bar = strongest signal, number = access points

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What's running

Every program, with a story — not just a name.

Click any program for five answers:

  • What it does
  • How it works
  • Why you need it
  • What happens without it
  • Can I close it?

Programs not in the guide are described from the file itself — description, publisher, folder. AdeeboMeter only explains; it never closes anything.

Spotify · your appsafe to close
OneDrive · syncs your filesleave it
svchost · Windows servicesWindows needs it
VPN client · company toolmanaged by IT
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Check a destination

Eight steps, from the name to the last hop.

1

DNS

Real lookups, cache skipped. A second opinion from 1.1.1.1 catches filters.

2

Route

Which adapter Windows would use — found without sending anything.

3

Ping

Four echoes: delay and loss.

4

TCP

The three-way handshake to your port, timed.

5

TLS

1.2 / 1.3 only, Windows validates. Untrusted? Nothing is sent.

6

HTTP

One HEAD request: status line and time to first byte.

7

Path MTU

"Don't fragment" pings find the biggest packet that fits.

8

Path

MTR-style trace: 3 rounds per hop, all hops at once.

If a check fails, a sign-in page check catches hotel and airport portals. Pin up to 5 destinations and Run all.

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The path story

Who carries your traffic — and what's in the way.

Your PC Your network192.168.x · NAT RogersToronto? NTT GitHub networks hand over here (BGP decides)

NAT

Double NAT and carrier-grade NAT (100.64.x.x) spotted from the hop addresses.

Tunnels

From the packet size: 1492 = PPPoE; smaller = VPN, LTE or satellite.

Firewalls

A refusal faster than the server is far = something in between said no. Ping works, port silent = dropped.

And more

Load-balanced hops, reroutes, where the delay jumps, hidden tunnel hops, the return path — and, with online lookups, the network that owns each hop.

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Live capture · Time machine

Deep when you ask. Silent when you don't.

Only while you press Start · stops after 15 min

Live capture (Wireshark's engine)

  • What your traffic is made of; top conversations named from the traffic itself
  • Wireshark's expert warnings; bytes per app
  • Call quality: RTP loss, jitter (RFC 3550), MOS score (ITU-T E-model) — audio stays encrypted
  • Rogue DHCP: two servers answering on one network
History stays on this PC · 3 days by default (1–90)

Time machine

  • Replay: drag to any minute — the dots, the numbers, what changed around then
  • The week: 7 × 24 squares; click one to replay that hour
  • Data usage per network, "slower than usual", after-call summaries, new devices
  • One line a minute, older days compressed, oldest deleted every night
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Privacy

What leaves your PC — and what never does.

WhatWhenWhere to
Router pingevery 2–10 s (Settings)your own router
Internet + DNS checkevery 15–60 s, or off1.1.1.1 / 8.8.8.8 and your DNS server
Provider nameonce per networka 6-hop trace toward 1.1.1.1, one reverse-DNS lookup
Checks you startwhen you press Check, Investigate or Time each stepwhere you asked, plus one DNS question to 1.1.1.1
DNS speed test · pinned watchwhen you press it · opt-in, every 30 s1.1.1.1, 8.8.8.8, 9.9.9.9 · the destination you pinned
Sign-in page checkonly if a check fails (can be off)msftconnecttest.com — the page Windows itself uses
Toolboxonly when you press Runthe address you typed, or the one the tool names on screen
Online lookupsopt-in, 5 min–3 h, then off by themselvespublic IP addresses only → RIPEstat, PeeringDB
Wi-Fi details · live capture—nothing leaves; Windows is asked locally
Never: cloud · account · telemetry · an updater · ads · crash reports sent · listening ports
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Security

Hardened by design, proven by checks.

No shell, ever

Windows tools by full System32 path, fixed arguments, a timeout, inside a job object that dies with the app.

Inputs validated

Destinations checked strictly before anything runs. Capture paths fenced inside AdeeboMeter's own folder.

TLS done right

Only TLS 1.2 / 1.3; Windows validates certificates; nothing is sent over an untrusted connection.

DLLs only from System32

For the whole process — a DLL planted next to the exe in Downloads is never loaded.

Nothing to hijack

No updater, no binary serializers, no XML parser, no secrets in the code. RADIUS secrets and SNMP communities / v3 passwords are masked and never kept.

A provable build

Built by GitHub from this source, actions pinned to exact commits. The build can only read; a separate release step signs provenance. SHA-256 on every file, 0 analyzer findings.

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Staying light

A penny in the background.

~0.5%

of one CPU core with only the widget

2–3%

with the engineer view open — zero the moment you leave

64 MB

memory budget, shown live in the footer

18·36·74

checks a minute: Penny · Balanced · Engineer

Memory stays flat

Fixed-size rings; capped lists (300 events, 3,000 conversations, 7 days).

Paints only on change

The widget checks the mouse 20×/s near the corner, 4×/s otherwise, 2×/s when hidden.

Nothing leaks

Windows, timers, bitmaps and helper tools released on close — and the self-test proves it.

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Proof, not promises

AdeeboMeter.exe --selftest

30 checks on your own PC, written to AdeeboMeter-selftest.txt:

  • Counters, socket tables and DNS reading work
  • Never listens
  • Bad destinations are rejected
  • The engineer view opens in under 1 second
  • No handle leaks over 30 open/close cycles
  • Every label has an explanation
  • Parsers give the right answers on known samples: Wi-Fi, LLDP/CDP, event log, RTP, DNS records, SNMP and its v3 keys, MIB files
  • Memory stays inside the 64 MB budget
  • --deeptest: hostile input into every tool, repeats to catch leaks, the UI under stress
AdeeboMeter 1.1.3 self-test
PASS never listens
PASS socket tables
PASS destination validation
PASS engineer view opens < 1 s
PASS 30 open/close, no leaks
PASS Wi-Fi information elements
PASS LLDP / CDP parser
PASS RTP call quality
…
ALL PASSED
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Honest limits

What Windows doesn't let us do without admin or the cloud.

AS numbers / BGP data

Need an internet service — only through the opt-in, timed online lookups. Otherwise router names tell the story.

TCP / UDP traceroute

Needs raw sockets (admin) — traces use ICMP.

Per-connection RTT

Needs admin to switch on — per-app traffic comes from live capture instead.

The DNS cache

Admin-only on some Windows builds — then names come from live capture.

Speed tests

Only to a server you run (iperf3, bufferbloat, TWAMP-light) — AdeeboMeter never listens.

Inside a tunnel or your ISP

Can only be inferred, never seen.

DSCP marking

Windows usually clears a marking a program asks for unless a QoS policy allows it — only a capture proves it.

Screens with different scaling

Moving between a 100% and a 200% screen: Windows scales the window, slightly soft.

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Get it

One file. It installs itself.

1

Download

The zip from the website or GitHub Releases. Open it.

2

Double-click AdeeboMeter.exe

Choose Install. It goes in just for you — a Start menu entry, an entry in Settings › Apps, no admin rights.

3

Look at the corner

It's already running, bottom-right. Tray icon or Ctrl+Alt+A for the full story.

Update

Run the new exe, choose Update. Your settings come along; the old version steps aside.

Remove

Settings › Apps, or the tray menu. Everything goes — folder, settings, history.

Or don't install

Just run it from here keeps it portable. Not code-signed: SmartScreen says More info → Run anyway.

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AdeeboMeter

Is it me or the network?

Now you know — in one glance.

No cloud. No telemetry. Never listens.
Every packet it sends is listed — and you can switch each one off.

adeeb111.github.io/AdeeboMeter

Created by Adeeb Khan24
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Install

Ten seconds. No wizard.

One file that installs itself — just for you.

1

Download

Get the zip and open it. Inside: AdeeboMeter.exe and the Theory of Everything.

2

Double-click, Install

It goes in for you only — a Start menu entry, an entry in Settings › Apps, no admin rights.

3

Look at the corner

It's already there, bottom-right. Click the tray icon or press Ctrl+Alt+A for the full story.

Download it only from this site or GitHub Releases — fake copies of network tools are a favourite trick of malicious ads. Windows may say “Windows protected your PC” because AdeeboMeter isn't code-signed yet — choose More info → Run anyway. Every release is built by GitHub from the public source, with its SHA256 fingerprint and build provenance (gh attestation verify AdeeboMeter.exe -R adeeb111/AdeeboMeter). To remove it: Settings › Apps › AdeeboMeter › Uninstall.

Policies

Code signing and privacy.

✓

Code signing policy

Releases aren't code-signed yet; we're applying for free open-source signing from SignPath Foundation. Every release file is built by this project's GitHub Actions workflow from the public source — never on a personal PC — with every action pinned to an exact commit, and each release is approved by hand. Team roles (committer, reviewer, approver): adeeb111, with multi-factor authentication.

✓

Privacy policy

AdeeboMeter will not transfer any information to other networked systems unless you ask it to. It never listens, has no telemetry, no account and no updater. Checks and tools contact only what you typed or what they name on screen; About lists every packet your settings send.

✓

Online lookups

Off by default. Switched on for 5 minutes to 3 hours, they send public IP addresses only — never private addresses or names you typed — to RIPEstat and PeeringDB, then turn themselves off. Everything else stays on your PC; uninstalling removes it.

Suggestion box

Make it better.

An idea, something that broke, a question — every message is read.

Nothing is sent from this page. Continue on GitHub opens your message there, ready to post with your free GitHub account — so you can follow the replies.

Browse ideas & questions Known problems

Now you know.

In one glance.

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