PingPlotter

PingPlotter Review

Vorteile:

Helped diagnose intermittent network problem

Nachteile:

none at the moment none at the moment ...

Great tool!

Kommentare: This tool has been great in trying to identify if issues lie with me or the game server I am trying to play on.

Vorteile:

Ping plotter is super easy to use for debugging networking issues

Nachteile:

Wish there was a free program for non commercial use

Looking at the Pro version. The tool works very well, but limited in ability for its price.

Kommentare: Visibility of some network issues. 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.

Vorteile:

Graphical representation of IP traceroutes and ping stats done at the same time. The graphical information is clear and concise, with the ability to scroll through a timeline to some extent. The software cleanly loads in Win10 without crashing.

Nachteile:

Timeline information needs work as it's not intuitive to scroll through specific times/dates. There is no obvious way to look at a time period over 7 days and examine a 3 minute interval in detail for example. Pricewise; 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! The price of this software is way over priced for the pro version. There are no bulk purchase discounts at all so no incentive to purchase more than once license at a time. The features the software offers is very small for what you would expect at the price. There are many free tools out there which seem to do the same thing. Ultimately it won't take long for someone to write an equivalent at a sensible price. The trial period for the pro version should be longer. I didn't really get much time to spend on customisation. 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.

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Kommentare: PingPlotter helped us determine where the bottlenecks were between us and the gaming servers. Our ISP was given pingplotter results to work with and rectify the problems. This is a very useful tool for troubleshooting network issues

Vorteile:

Ease of use. Visual presentation of the results.

Nachteile:

Sometimes reported incorrect packet loss on internal functioning network devices

Excellent product to take into account for intensive control of a network.

Kommentare: I really liked it as a tool, I think that everyone should have a network monitor of this caliber continuously to be able to rest easy.

Vorteile:

The facility that it provides to use immediately, it took me just a couple of minutes to start monitoring the network and to be able to make an operating diagram.

Nachteile:

the inability to make comparisons of time ranges simultaneously in a single analysis

I strong suggest pingplotter

Kommentare: Happy,Motivated Suggest strongly

Vorteile:

Accurate analysis and monitoring High level of management Regular notification

Nachteile:

Price is very responsible related to value

Networktool, very easy to handle and usefull for daily analytics

Kommentare: We think about buying this great tool to help us daily to see quick in which segment might be a network problem and to be able to act fast and efficient

Vorteile:

The product is very easy to install and selfexplaining in usage

Nachteile:

That the good tools are always have to have a price

Awsome Tool

Vorteile:

Extremely functional tool in terms of network resolution. Complete and easy to use. I recommend!!!

Nachteile:

Its a simple but strong tool and really fulfilled my demand

Ping Plotter is a necessity for Network Admins

Kommentare: Great for network monitoring, highly recommend.

Vorteile:

Ease of use, network monitoring, knowledge base

Nachteile:

There is nothing that I do not like about Ping Plotter.

A simple to use tool that tells you the state of your Internet connections

Kommentare: I got PingPlotter because I was having flaky Internet connections, and I couldn't figure out what the problem was. I could use Email and simple web surfing, but anything more than that was difficult at best and impossible at worst. Windows 10 Ping program wasn't very helpful. I went online looking for a better, free solution, and I saw many recommendations for PingPlotter. PingPlotter comes with a 15 day free trial of the Pro Version, and that turned out to be very helpful. 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. I am now working towards a resolution of those problems. I highly recommend PingPlotter as a simple-to-use, helpful tool for diagnosing Internet connection problems.

Vorteile:

Easy to download and install. 15 day free trial Easy to use. It's almost intuitive, but where it isn't intuitive, the help files are actually helpful. Provides helpful graphics that show the path my data is taking, how much packet loss is occurring, and where it is occurring. In the Pro version, you can continuously ping and monitor multiple targets for hours.

Nachteile:

The free trial comes to an end. :-( The graphics would sometimes hang up when I was running continuous monitoring for hours, forcing me to reset and restart.

Recommended for all network analyzes

Kommentare: international application bandwidth problem in order to distinguish between slow internal networks and telecom operator routing changes

Vorteile:

Pingplotter brings great ease of use for in-house application tracking. Monitoring the first 30 IP addresses at once is very practicalPingplotter provides great ease of use for monitoring internal applications. Monitoring the first 30 IP addresses at once is very convenient compared to a simple ping. Recommended for all network analyzes for its handling side and for developers to optimize their applications, and system services to monitor response times compared to a simple ping. Recommended for all network analyzes for its handling side.

Nachteile:

pity that in the free version, the screenshots are not complete

Remote Server Monitoring

Kommentare: My company recently set up a hosted virtual machine in order to move away from our on-prem server. While connected to the VPN, our remote desktop session was timing out sporadically even though the VPN connection did not drop. This software has helped to determine that there may be an issue with our Cisco AnyConnect client.

Vorteile:

PingPlotter was very easy to setup and use.

Nachteile:

I see no cons if you are using this software to monitor the strength of your internet connections.

PingPlotter is a great replacement for the tiresome ping command

Kommentare: We use ping plotter when troubleshooting client networks. We use it quite a bit for basic ping and traceroute, but also for other issues - such as quality of service. By using PingPlotter, we are able to tweak hardware firewall rules to adjust throughput on network segments. We do this by adjusting rules while keeping notice of the latency visualization. For example, we have used PingPlotter to improve VOIP traffic by discovering unnecessary packet filtering.

Vorteile:

The multi-connection capability of PingPlotter is definitely a strength. Combining ping with route information is also a key feature. Lastly, the visualization of data is much friendlier than just reading numbers. The strength of theses three together avoids the need for multiple command prompt windows to be open and also removes the guesswork out of keeping track of each.

Nachteile:

The cost. It works very well, however, the cost (Professional Edition) is quite high.

Identification of Internet Problems

Kommentare: I was having an issue with the loss of the internet 6-10 times a day. Each time it was for almost exactly 5 minutes. Frontier Communications sent out techs, they checked the lines - all good. One tech stated in the report that the problem was with my equipment and charged me $300 for his 2 hrs of research (he never even came into my house). After playing around I realized that my modem/router gateway indicated .3 ms even when the internet was down. However, each time the internet went down (not a disconnect) total packet loss occurred at the second hop (Frontier Office 40 miles away - regularly 19.6 ms) and was cascaded down all hops to .8.8.8.8. So I knew that the second hop was the problem but Frontier techs will not accept my diagnosis. I asked them to test their router/port, but they said they couldn't because the office was 40 miles away. So I am pretty sure I know what the problem is now, but I can't figure how to get the information to this office. Times down today 2/7/2019 7:30 AM, 8:00 AM, 9:00 AM, 10:00 AM, 3:15 PM, 4:30 PM, 5:30 PM, 8:30 PM, 9:30 PM, Midnight. Now that doesn't look a wiring issue to me! But at lease I now where the problem lies. Couldn't have solved this problem without PingPlotter

Vorteile:

The manner in which the software charted and stored my data for future reference.

Nachteile:

The tutorials were good, but for someone who knows little about the internet and networking would find it very difficult to understand what the software is telling you. I would recommend a more detailed component of the tutorial about different events and describe what they are seeing and what that is telling you. I would also recommend that it be written someone that was not associated with the development of the software, but by someone that is selected to learn PingPlotter and write it from a beginner's perspective. A person who is too close to the software will leave out things because they don't realize that beginners don't know and understand what the Pro takes for granted.

Great tool for troubleshooting connectivity

Vorteile:

Ping Plotter allows me to very simply verify connectivity. or i can watch my equipment be unreachable. A lot of the time i can watch a device go up and down over 24 hours (it can do more, but thats generally all i get to, and My company(ISP) has equipment outside of our network. when they are having issues ping plotter is my first go to program. I can tell if another ISP or passthrough is having issues. This at times prompts me to make a route change, while other times its a call to that ISP to start a ticket. Ping Plotter has saved us many hours of troubleshooting and also allows us to show another ISP that the issues is theirs.

Nachteile:

No budget as of yet to buy a newer version, company is still evaluating if their is a need to update to a newer version

Easy to use ping tracking software

Kommentare: Able to track network issues that we did not know we were having before by seeing dropped packets we were unaware of

Vorteile:

Able to track when pings where lost or have added latency via the logging the program does.

Nachteile:

to be honest i cannot think of anything that i do not like about the software it pings and traces at the same time.

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Kommentare: Great software. Keeps a live ping going while working on troubleshooting.

Vorteile:

Easy to use and manipulate. Provides quick look into network tracking. Comes in handy to see where you are dropping connection.

Nachteile:

There is not much on the Cons section of this software. We have used it for years and are very satisfied.

Ping plotter is easily one of the the most useful and polished tools I have ever used.

Vorteile:

The network discovery tool is easily worth the price of entry and I have used this utility almost every day since I purchased it. No more guessing where that IP is being assigned or where that rouge DHCP address is coming from. Brilliant, well packaged, easy to use, I recommend to anyone that has ever had to TRACERT anything.

Nachteile:

None that I can see, maybe the setup of some of the advanced features is a little convoluted. Great app.

Ping & Plot Investigations

Kommentare: When the root cause of packet loss on the network cannot be located via manual investigation, Ping Plotter can determine this via longer term monitoring.

Vorteile:

It is sometimes difficult to determine the root cause of degradation within an ISP. With Ping Plotter you can accurately determine where it originates by locating the affected nodes between the network devices.

Nachteile:

Not the most user friendly interface but understandable considering what we are using it for. Graph designs are a bit ugly to look at and sometimes agents do not want to share this with customers.

Great tool for troubleshooting connectivity!

Kommentare: The reason I used PingPlotter was to provide evidence that there may be an issue with a data center at work. This program is easy to use and the answers to my questions were a click away in their knowledge base or videos on YouTube. Configuring PingPlotter, running, and saving the results were easy. I also love the fact that you can have multiple reports running for research and comparison.

Vorteile:

The graphical interface is great and easy to use.

Nachteile:

There was not anything I did not like. No complaints!

Excellent fault detection tool

Kommentare: I use this to prove to my ISP that the fault lies within their network and pinpoint were their fault is. That way repair won't take weeks (ISP not doing anything).
I can adjust a few parameters so the measurement results show if measurement falls within or outside specifications.

Vorteile:

The statistics over longer period (min 10 min). The Packet loss %. Latency and of course Jitter.

Nachteile:

It only runs on Windows and NO OTHER OS...

Excellent program to use when you have problem with your internetconnection

Kommentare: It is really easy to convince/show my internet supplier that i have big problems with my internet Connection (Speed is Awful ow at the moment)

Vorteile:

Í usually check my internetsupplier who is not living up to what they promise. With this program i can make a log file over severel hours (Over Night) to proove to them that the internet Connection is bad (Low Speed).This is of cause very helpful to convince them about the problems that occurs many times during the day/night/weekends etc

if everything ran as well as PingPlotter

Kommentare: PingPlotter does what it says. But that's not all. In my two instances using PingPlotter, both times their technical support team offered not only help with product usage, but expert guidance and education to help me understand the nature of my issues. This went far beyond help. Even if another product delivered similar results, the quality of customer service is tops.

Vorteile:

PingPlotter has solved both my ISP related issues AND my own semi-self-inflicted user error.

Nachteile:

This is so minor that I almost don't want to mention it, but in an update using the cloud version, the UI changed enough that I needed help from their support team.

PingPlotter is the easiest way to distinguish if a network issue is happening in LAN or ISP

Kommentare: It clearly identified an intermittent packet drop pattern that was originating from a modem that went bad when our ISP's bs level 1 tech support was saying that it was probably our router or inside our network. I ran it from a PC connected directly to modem. Used the graphs to make my case to ISP. They replaced the modem, problem disappeared.

Vorteile:

The history diagrams give you proof to bring to your ISP to show that your modem needs replaced or that they the issue is not on your end.

Nachteile:

I don't like the licensing approach. I bought a full pro license on a PC at our office but I want to use it outside of our network as an IT consultant. It's a great tool but rarely needed so having to repurchase it to use at a different location is just not worth it.

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Kommentare: I loved it. I have used multiple tools for troubleshooting problems in the networks, but this one is pretty good for people that like to see what's going on.

Vorteile:

I love the tools it provides. You can do traceroutes and pings simply from your command prompt, but PingPlotter allows the user to have visuals... plus, it's shareable.

Nachteile:

There's very little help on understanding what the tools mean. If a user doesn't understand how the traceroute works, they may misinterpret what they're seeing. They could be seeing an issue when, in fact, there isn't really one.