No more questioning whether the problem is related to the transport network or my internet connection or an overloaded server. With a combination of routers, switches, wireless access points, and application servers located in five physically separate locations, PingPlotter has helped me understand performance and isolate problems in each segment of the end-to-end network. Take out the weekends and normal busy daily activities and there isn't really much time to spend on the testing it in 14 days.Ĭomentarios: PingPlotter has provided great insights into the performance of my network. I didn't really get much time to spend on customisation. The trial period for the pro version should be longer. Ultimately it won't take long for someone to write an equivalent at a sensible price. There are many free tools out there which seem to do the same thing. The features the software offers is very small for what you would expect at the price. There are no bulk purchase discounts at all so no incentive to purchase more than once license at a time. The price of this software is way over priced for the pro version. I purchased a Fingbox which is a physical device which has a lot more ability than this software although the uses are different I feel the value for money for this software is not good! There is no obvious way to look at a time period over 7 days and examine a 3 minute interval in detail for example. Timeline information needs work as it's not intuitive to scroll through specific times/dates. The software cleanly loads in Win10 without crashing. The graphical information is clear and concise, with the ability to scroll through a timeline to some extent. Graphical representation of IP traceroutes and ping stats done at the same time. I would purchase some licenses immediately if they were 1/5 of the price (which is where I would put a price on this software) however since the seat license is so high, I will look for other solutions. ![]() The graphics would sometimes hang up when I was running continuous monitoring for hours, forcing me to reset and restart.Ĭomentarios: Visibility of some network issues. In the Pro version, you can continuously ping and monitor multiple targets for hours. Provides helpful graphics that show the path my data is taking, how much packet loss is occurring, and where it is occurring. It's almost intuitive, but where it isn't intuitive, the help files are actually helpful. I highly recommend PingPlotter as a simple-to-use, helpful tool for diagnosing Internet connection problems.Įasy to use. I am now working towards a resolution of those problems. By monitoring multiple targets continuously over several days, I found patterns in my Internet connection that helped me figure out, in consultation with my ISP where the problems were. PingPlotter comes with a 15 day free trial of the Pro Version, and that turned out to be very helpful. I went online looking for a better, free solution, and I saw many recommendations for PingPlotter. Windows 10 Ping program wasn't very helpful. ![]() I could use Email and simple web surfing, but anything more than that was difficult at best and impossible at worst. Glad to report we did not find any issues with the software.Ĭomentarios: I got PingPlotter because I was having flaky Internet connections, and I couldn't figure out what the problem was. Now that we have our own tool, we gain better QOS data. It wasn’t until we installed Ping Plotter and took screen shots of those subsequent days for QOS proof did they start to get somewhat serious about the problem! Up till then it was a patch it and move on. ![]() Looking forward to clearing up the intermittent outages problem. Meaning we could tell them the service was out for say an hour on this day/time, but they couldn’t see it on their tools dashboard. What we found is their sampling rate time frame is way broader than they were telling us. We had be writing down the times and dates of the outages to help them pinpoint the problem. And at a serious cost! The last two visits were by senior technicians and they came with laptops to show us the health history of our account. With all of the visits we have replaced every piece of internal house cabling and external drop to the pole tap, and all the modem/ router/ switches. ![]() We’ve had five different technician visits over this time trying to resolve the same issue. For the new people on this long trip, enjoy the ride and good luck on your studies! For questions or help on how to use these tools, I am happy to help you so feel free to contact me anytime.Comentarios: We’ve been having service outages with our Commercial- Time Warner/ Spectrum Cable internet service for a few months. Here are some more tools to explore Footprinting and Reconnaissance.
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