PingPlotter Pro v3.20p |Size:5.19MBPingPlotter visual network troubleshooting and diagnostic tool for Windows has been designed with ease of use, responsiveness and accuracy in mind.
Whether you're a user of an ASP, an online gamer, a VoIP user, user of some other network/Internet application or an administrator, at some point it's likely you'll encounter problems with your network or Internet connection(s). PingPlotter helps you pinpoint where the problems are in an intuitive graphical way, and to continue monitoring your connection long-term to further identify issues.
-- PingPlotter is a network troubleshooting and diagnostic tool for Windows 98, ME, 2000, 2003 and XP. It uses a combination of traceroute, ping, and whois to collect data quickly, and then allows you to continue to collect data over time to give you the information you really need to identify problems (both short-term and long-term trends).
-- PingPlotter is unique in its ability to collect data (over a period of hours, days or weeks), and then allow you to focus on particular aspects of that data to determine where the problem is happening. PingPlotter graphically shows problems in a way that allows you to shorten the time it takes to pinpoint a problem.
PingPlotter Pro takes the features and benefits of PingPlotter Standard and adds a number of "industrial strength" features. PingPlotter Pro is built for the network professional who might need to monitor multiple targets simultaneously, run as a Windows service, or access PingPlotter remotely through a web interface. PingPlotter Pro also adds some features for the VoIP professional, with Jitter and MoS calculations, plus the ability to add user-defined metrics and calculations. Coupling this with a multi-target summary screen, workspaces, named configurations (and a whole lot more!), PingPlotter Pro is a powerful tool with a place in any administrator's toolbox.
Dropped connections. Bad voice quality on VoIP calls. Slow FTP performance. Bad "lag" when using Citrix. Slow downloads. These are all symptoms of network latency and packet loss, and it's often hard to determine where the problem originates.
> PingPlotter Pro offers a powerful mechanism to see the network and pinpoint the problem from your workstation - allowing network professionals fast and easy access to routing and performance information on their networks.
> PingPlotter Pro's unique combination of easy-to-understand graphs, coupled with it's features designed to aid in network troubleshooting give you a tool that can notify you the moment network conditions change, and then give you the information to solve the problem.
Features in PingPlotter Standard* Easy to use! PingPlotter's basic mode means you just type in the address you want information about and hit "Trace". It starts tracing and shows you a graph. Someone with no network experience can see where their packets are being dropped, and then contact their ISP with this information.
* Graphs the response time through the route of the packet from source to destination. This really highlights problem hops, and lets you concentrate on trouble areas.
* Uses multiple threads to increase performance and accuracy. This means that PingPlotter doesn't wait for hop 1 to respond before sending out a request to hop 2. A complete 1 sample trace can be done in about 5-10% of the time it takes to do a trace with the Windows "TRACERT" command (usually less than 1 second for PingPlotter vs 15-45 seconds for TraceRT).
* Graphs any host over time, allowing you to scroll back and forth over time, and zoom in on any specific time to find out where problems occur. You can even graph multiple hops at the same time.
* PingPlotter's graph can be resized, rescaled, zoomed, dragged and manipulated to give you exactly the information you need to find a problem. Helps you identify whether a connectivity problem is your ISP or network, the host you're connecting to or somewhere on the internet between you and the remote host. PingPlotter will even help you identify which network (Digex, Cable & Wireless, Alternet, MCI, Sprint, etc.) is the source of your problem down to the specific node.
* Creates nice images (via clipboard copy, or saving as BMP, GIF or PNG files) that can be sent via e-mail. Face it, text dumps of a bunch of numbers aren't always the most compelling evidence. Put a picture on that data that shows where the problem lies and let your network provider argue with you then!
* Schedule automatic saving of images (BMP, GIF or PNG format), or saving of the underlying raw data. You can use this to collect data over a long period automatically.
* Keep track of route changes. No other product tracks route changes like PingPlotter - giving you the ability to see what route your data was taking at any time in your tracing session.
* Can do traceroute using either Windows-standard ICMP echo requests, Unix-standard UDP requests, or TCP requests (ie: HTTP, FTP, etc). Some ISPs block one, and not the other - this gives you more opportunities to be able to collect performance data - even if your ISP doesn't want you to.
* Exports any portion of your collected data to a text file for analysis by other software packages (e.g. Microsoft Excel). If PingPlotter doesn't graph it the way you want it, use your favorite graphing software and do it yourself!
* Built for long-term monitoring. PingPlotter works GREAT for overnight or even multiple-day monitoring projects. Set your interval and let it run. Check back later and review the history to find out trends and problem times. Does the speed degrade at 9PM and improve at 1AM? PingPlotter will make that VERY clear and give you all the data to present to your ISP.
* Will save your accumulated data for a host to a file and then allow you to reload and continue. Some users have reported running PingPlotter continously for months, and we've been running it here at Nessoft continuously for years. We have well over 20 million samples collected and automatically saved for the last 4+ years of Nessoft.com site performance!
* You can save and load sample sets, and then resume the trace. This way you can have multiple sessions of data in the same graph.
* High performance, low overhead. There is no traceroute package available that returns results faster. PingPlotter is FAST and it uses very little CPU to do its job. That means you can run it continuously without interfering with your other tasks.
* Alerts! Alerts will allow you to set parameters where you want to be notified of the condition. If the conditions fire an alert, you can log that data to a text file, play a wave file, launch another program of your choice, change your tray icon, or send yourself e-mail with the pertinent information included.
* Built-in Whois. You can query for a server by name, or the ARIN servers by IP address (to see who owns and runs a particular IP address).
PingPlotter Pro is based on PingPlotter Standard (and includes all of the features of PingPlotter Standard), but also adds a number of business-class features, suggested by our customer base over the last 7 years (see the feature comparison for feature-by-feature comparison).
Features in PingPlotter Pro v 3.1 include:
# Everything in PingPlotter Standard.
# Collect data from (and graph) multiple targets simultaneously.
# Summary screen shows the status of all active traces at a glance.
# Runs as a native Windows Service.
# VoIP-targeted troubleshooting capabilties. Jitter metrics and graphs. MOS (mean opinion score), plus packet loss and latency.
# Web interface allows remote control and access to PingPlotter Pro's data and settings (using built-in web server or IIS).
# Can load and "merge" multiple saved sample sets.
# Trace from a remote computer to any other target using the remote trace capability.
# Enhanced script-based alert conditions and events. Write your own rules and actions!
# Built-in scripting engine allows custom calculations and extensibility.
# Docking and floating of any target, plus saved workspace management to remember how you like things.
# Named configurations to quickly switch between your favorite settings on any target (ie: ICMP and TCP port 80).