Bandwidth Controller vs. Progress WhatsUp Gold

Bandwidth Controller

Progress WhatsUp Gold

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Bandwidth Controller	Score 0.0 out of 10	N/A	N/A	$29.95 one-time fee
Progress WhatsUp Gold	Score 8.0 out of 10	Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)	WhatsUp Gold developed by Ipswitch (acquired by Progress Software May 2019) offers network performance monitoring and mapping. It supports core monitoring features, including automated workflows and network capacity planning, and monitors across hybrid environments.	N/A

Pricing

Bandwidth Controller

Progress WhatsUp Gold

Editions & Modules

Basic: $29.95
one-time fee

No answers on this topic

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Bandwidth Controller	Progress WhatsUp Gold
Free Trial
No	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Optional

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Community Pulse
	Bandwidth Controller	Progress WhatsUp Gold
Considered Both Products	Bandwidth Controller No answer on this topic	Progress WhatsUp Gold Verified User Anonymous Chose Progress WhatsUp Gold Progress WhatsUp Gold is able to do multi vendor and is able to do so without the need to install and maintain an agent. It used industry standard tools to pull data to monitor your systems and infrastructure. Incentivized Helpful? Joshua Van Camp Network Administration Supervisor Chose Progress WhatsUp Gold Progress WhatsUp Gold (formerly Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold) is more network focused than some of the other products we looked at, which had basic capabilities but were not as strong on the reporting or programmatic resolution of issues. Progress WhatsUp Gold (formerly Ipswitch … Incentivized Helpful? Shahab Razak Senior Network Architect Chose Progress WhatsUp Gold The network monitoring tools and suites are abundant and you must be very thorough when evaluating the plethora of solutions out there. SNMP MIBs make it easy to gather information and discover your network, so you should concentrate on usability features, reporting, and … Incentivized Helpful? RP Reggie Pauling Network Engineer Chose Progress WhatsUp Gold WUG doesn't have near the feature sets of these two. Incentivized Helpful? John Glenn Network Operations Manager Chose Progress WhatsUp Gold It's just more affordable and offers more flexibility than PagerDuty. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Progress WhatsUp Gold Ease of deployment and use the product. Friendly user interface and quick network discovery with a large number of monitors. Incentivized Helpful? Michael Singh NOC Engineer 3, Enterprise Managed Services Chose Progress WhatsUp Gold For the sake of simplicity, WhatsUp Gold is better. It is cheaper and more cost-effective for what we need. I am sure it will scale up easily in the future if that growth comes. Incentivized Helpful? Alex Leung Information Technology Manager Chose Progress WhatsUp Gold WhatsUp Gold is an industry leading product providing excellent monitoring and reporting capabilities for systems and resources that allow us as the customer to work proactively before system outages occur, which minimizes potential downtime Incentivized Helpful? Victor Adebayo IT Support Executive Chose Progress WhatsUp Gold WhatsUp Gold gives you a much better in-depth analysis and understanding of both your network and endpoint devices but the emphasis should be laid more on report generation. WhatsUp Gold has the ability to generate a report (e.g device uptime, bandwidth utilization, device … Incentivized Helpful? JE Jamie Elliott Sr. Network Engineer - Contract Work Chose Progress WhatsUp Gold From a initial setup, WhatsUp takes Splunk down. I had WhatsUp up within minutes of monitoring and rebooting. From a PRTG perspective, setup was about the same. Now PRTG doesn't have all the bells and whistle WhatsUp has but for tracking and monitoring Netflow and Syslog … Incentivized Helpful? Gary Lamontagne Network and Systems Administrator Chose Progress WhatsUp Gold WhatsUp Gold was much easier to install and setup. I ran into many issues installing Spiceworks, and had such a learning curve. I'm not an expert in Linux and that is the platform that it installed on. I'm very comfortable in a Windows environment, and Whatsup Gold installs on … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Progress WhatsUp Gold More customizable UI, more relavant monitoring statistics, less false positive alerts. Incentivized Helpful?

Features

Bandwidth Controller

Progress WhatsUp Gold

Network Performance Monitoring

Comparison of Network Performance Monitoring features of Product A and Product B
	Bandwidth Controller - Ratings	Progress WhatsUp Gold 6.6 Ratings 18% below category average
Automated network device discovery	00 Ratings	8.00 Ratings
Network monitoring	00 Ratings	7.40 Ratings
Alerts	00 Ratings	8.70 Ratings
Network capacity planning	00 Ratings	4.30 Ratings
Packet capture analysis	00 Ratings	5.10 Ratings
Network mapping	00 Ratings	6.80 Ratings
Customizable reports	00 Ratings	6.40 Ratings
Wireless infrastructure monitoring	00 Ratings	4.20 Ratings
Hardware health monitoring	00 Ratings	8.90 Ratings

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User Ratings
	Bandwidth Controller	Progress WhatsUp Gold
Likelihood to Recommend	- (0 ratings)	8.3 (0 ratings)
Support Rating	- (0 ratings)	4.2 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Bandwidth Controller	Progress WhatsUp Gold
Likelihood to Recommend	No answers on this topic	[Progress WhatsUp Gold (formerly Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold)] is good for what it is. An inexpensive but accurate monitor for alerting on systems and services. However, it is time consuming to configure, The GUI leaves a lot to be desired and the formatting for txt alerts stinks (I just use it now as an alert to check my email to view the actual alert.) Incentivized MG Matthew Garufi Enterprise Architect Read full review
Pros	No answers on this topic	Easy to install and manage. While it does require a whole server with IIS and a SQL db it is low impact on resources but still quick to respond. Great for quick notifications about a server going above a configured resource threshold. We don't have to look at every server's resource utilization individually anymore. Quick and easy to setup a service up or down notification. Incentivized John Glenn Network Operations Manager Read full review
Cons	No answers on this topic	While it is easy to get up and running, I know I could utilize the software better if I had some formal training on it. There are a wealth of features available, but I don't have time to learn them all in depth. The training classes offered are very expensive. I'd love it if IPSwitch offered some kind of reasonably priced training options. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Usability	No answers on this topic	The web interface is really good, there are a few areas that could use a bit of polish but overall it is well designed and easy to navigate and use, even for a new user. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Support Rating	No answers on this topic	Not too much to support as it doesn't do that much. Incentivized RP Reggie Pauling Network Engineer Read full review
Alternatives Considered	No answers on this topic	WhatsUp Gold gives you a much better in-depth analysis and understanding of both your network and endpoint devices but the emphasis should be laid more on report generation. WhatsUp Gold has the ability to generate a report (e.g device uptime, bandwidth utilization, device health etc) and track events that took place even as low as 5 minutes ago. Incentivized Victor Adebayo IT Support Executive Read full review
Return on Investment	No answers on this topic	As I mentioned earlier, the monitoring of the external environment and uptime is a necessity. An hour down is a 1% loss of revenue per day which may not sound like much but in a million dollar company, that 1% is a huge chunk. The backup configuration has been very handy in turn around time for failed equipment. I did have a homegrown way of backing up configurations but had to check daily and verify every backup. This becomes very time consuming and a waste of company time. Only negative is the mapping. In the Cisco world CDP is a great way to map connections and they don't seem to do it that way. Incentivized JE Jamie Elliott Sr. Network Engineer - Contract Work Read full review
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