PingPlotter

I was having serious problems with my Verizon FIOS and had no good way of seeing what was happening or where the problem was. I have FIOS going to the ONT going to a MOCA cable adaptor going upstairs to the other MOCA adaptor which was going to an Eero and then to my WYZE hub. Yeah I know. But I sure didn't want to diagnose all of that!

So I installed PingPlotter and immediately discovered that all of that was just fine. But Verizon was dropping packets at every hop! I was able to explain this and after they updated some firmware somewhere, I've got my 1G/1G working and I know that internally, my network is solid!

So PingPlotter was fundamental in seeing this in realtime and giving really great tools for outputting it in all the different forms. I'm sure if I had more complicated situations, it would be a necessary tool!

Great tool!

• It allowed me to get back to work instead of worrying about the network. Critical.

Beyond Compare, IntelliJ IDEA, Anthropic Claude

I use it personally to monitor ISP stability. As we are all work from home, it is important to have a stable connection. Sometimes we don't know where the issue is coming from. Pingplotter lets us know very quickly if the issue is the ISP, the route or the service we are using. Its been very helpful in diagnosing connection issues.

• The free version has helped remote workers with their ISP issues

Nagios Network Analyzer

I use PingPlotter to diagnose networks and identify communication issues. It's a great tool to locate patterns and issues and evaluate network health. In large scale deployments, pinpointing a point of fault in a large multi-layered network can be a nightmare and constant monitoring tools are not that easy to come by. Thankfully PingPlotter saved the day and allowed us to have a very good overview of what's happening with the time stamps and ultimately locate the issues and faults.

• It improves the time taken to resolve the issue therefore client happier (in the simplest of terms)
• cost saving by reducing hours needed for a task

I needed something to give me more insight into my network connectivity at a glance (LAN/WAN and over VPN) and this does that very well, and without a lot of set up or maintenance... Just plug in a destination to monitor and it just does it. Being able to see a long history makes it even more valuable.

• Continuous monitoring has given me a way to be proactive with potential connectivity issues across the network

Simple to setup, nice interface and works like a charm. Overall at great tool for diagnostics and baselining a network. Help with network diagnostics is a great add for any tool. Takes the mystery out of determining what the results mean. The baseline is critical to know when your network has changed and when that started.

• quicker resolution time
• tracking allowed for justification of new equipment
• Isolation of subnet issues created focus for those networks

Netmon

Kaseya NOC Services, Syncron Inventory, Cisco 550X Series Stackable Managed Switches