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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows 95, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98
- Date added: December 12, 2002
- Total Downloads: 175,344
- Downloads last week: 257
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 19 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
This utility lets you trace the route of packages across the Web. Its interface is not so snazzy-looking, as with some analogous programs that draw the packet route on a world map. However, Ping Plotter's charts and its highlighting of pings in red let you instantly see bottlenecks. The program enables you to track average ping times, and you can set the monitoring period and the interval between pings. You can save results as plain text or as a snapshot of the program window. Ping Plotter Freeware will be of use to system administrators.Publisher's description
From Nessoft :If your Internet connection has suddenly slowed to a crawl, chances are there's a ping test in your future. You could use the built-in Windows ping command to trace your packets across the Web, but why not try Ping Plotter Freeware instead? Unlike some of its snazzier competitors, it doesn't draw your packets' route on a world map, but it does provide a color-coded chart that lets you instantly spot bottlenecks in your connection. You can set the monitoring period and the interval between pings, and save the results as plain text or as a snapshot of the program window. Ping Plotter Freeware is a natural choice for sysadmins who would normally use Windows Ping, but it's also a good choice for occasional home troubleshooting.
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- Average user rating: 4.1 stars out of 19 votes
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3 out of 6 people found this review helpful
Version: Ping Plotter Freeware 1.1
"Does what it claims, exactly."
Pros: Easy to use,fast.
Cons: Maybe the graph should be horizontal.
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0 out of 4 people found this review helpful
Version: Ping Plotter Freeware 1.1
Pros: -none-
Cons: As far as I can tell, this software fails to create a legal file name for the log file and has no chance of working. I was left hoping that I did nothing else.
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: Ping Plotter Freeware 1.1
"Simple, quick, easy, a no-brainer"
Pros: 1) The price.
2) It's all up front, everything you want is presented in one nice little package.
3) Ping and trace in one step. I haven't used DOS to do either since I got this program.
Cons: If anything, and this is really being trite, the graph output is so straight forward and simple, it's kind of ugly. I remember Visual Trace (back before McAfee bought it, tweaked it, then charged for it) did what this does except it also gave you a cool geographical representation of the route. Other than that, this program rocks out loud!
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Ping Plotter Freeware 1.1
"Very Useful to see network delays/loss"
Pros: It is free, it showed me where packets were lost and delayed. I suspect the paid version is great, but did not need to buy it. I would buy it if I dealt with network throughput all day.
Cons: Logging is reserved for the paid version, but that is a good marketing decision.
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Ping Plotter Freeware 1.1
Pros: Simple, easy to use interface, with commonly used settings.
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