PingPlotter Reviews & Product Details

Sometimes solving a network problem takes more than rebooting the router. When that's the case, understanding the cause of the problem is essential to finding a solution. Is it your local network, the website you're accessing, or something in between? PingPlotter makes finding and proving the source of network problems easier. It tests the route between your computer and a target website then graphs the results. Visual evidence helps diagnose problems faster. It also helps persuade others to make changes if you find a problem with a network you do not control. Analyzing network performance with PingPlotter can be as simple or complex and you need. All it takes to get started is entering a target and clicking the trace button. From there, the tool will collect latency and packet loss data until you capture the information you need. If you're interested in more in depth analysis, plenty of features are available for testing with different packet types, getting alerted about problems, and perpetually monitoring entire networks. Free trials available at www.pingplotter.com/download.html

Seller

Pingman Tools

Discussions

PingPlotter Community

Languages Supported

English

Solution Type

Best-of-Breed

Overview by

Taylor Edginton (Chief Operations Officer at Pingman Tools)

Pricing

Pricing provided by PingPlotter.

PingPlotter Free

$0.00

Forever

PingPlotter Pro

$349

Perpetual License

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User Insights

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Verified User in Management Consulting

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

3/24/2022

"Great app. A lightweight gut-check for diagnosing your network performance over time."

5/5

What do you like best about PingPlotter?

Super-lightweight. Not overbearing or technical. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PingPlotter?

Minor observation that isn't a deal-breaker. Sometimes accessing Sidekick and the Pingplotter Pro can get confusing at first. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Internet

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

10/15/2021

"PingPlotter for Proof"

5/5

What do you like best about PingPlotter?

I enjoyed using PingPlotter as I have been in a multiple month battle with my ISP who claims that my internet connection has no problems. I was able to use PingPlotter and so them proof that my internet was having issues thus making them actually take a look instead of blaming my hardware. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PingPlotter?

Nothing, it worked pretty great for me. A small learning curve but not much. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Thatayaone M.

Network Consulting Engineer

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

10/30/2020

"PingPloter Review"

4.5/5

What do you like best about PingPlotter?

It is lightweight

Performs latency monitoring

Easy to install and setup

It has a free version which gives access to all the features the software offers

performs traceroute Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PingPlotter?

Improvements can be made to the GUI so that the graphs look a bit more professional.

The trial version is only 14 days, which is a bit short Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering PingPlotter:

This is a great software to have especially when you have different teams looking after your network, it makes it easy for the network team and other teams like the servers team to see where they have latency issues on their network Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is PingPlotter solving and how is that benefiting you?

To figure out where you have latency issues on your network can be difficult and this software makes it easy to spot out latency issues on your network in a graphical manner which makes it easy to produce reports that can be shared with the team or management. Graphs are easy to understand, even a non-technical person can understand them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Higher Education

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

9/17/2020

"Very useful, beyond my expectations!"

5/5

What do you like best about PingPlotter?

Easy to use interface and understandable trace results. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PingPlotter?

Nothing so far, and I started on the free version! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is PingPlotter solving and how is that benefiting you?

PingPlotter is straightforward to use, intuitive to understand and provides very useful information. I was advised by my internet provider to replace my old cable modem in my local network (LAN). I decided to try PP so I’d be able to tell if my performance improved. Little did I know that it would help with this PLUS offering other useful tools insights! I am not an IT expert; just a detail-oriented person who want to learn more and understand how my network is working. I was still able to use PP effectively. The online users guide is comprehensive and readable, so I got started quickly. The trace displays can be easily modified to focus in on specific time intervals when something weird seems to be happening AND to stand back an see overall average performance. Most importantly for me, PP lets me study my network performance, identifying all the devices and how they are working – especially how a wireless router or the cable modem is doing, in comparison to the other “hops” that are outside my LAN and thus mostly outside my control. Finally, and perhaps most importantly, the PP Tech Support team was responsive, prompt, and very helpful. I had a lot of questions, since I was starting from near novice level. Their team answered my detailed questions in a sequence of emails, from providing basic background on how networks should be connected up to advanced analysis of my setup including specific trace run results that I didn’t understand. I recommend PP with pleasure and no reservations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Chad M.

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

9/18/2020

"The only way to get my ISP's attention"

5/5

What do you like best about PingPlotter?

User interface is great. Very intuitive to use. Being able to monitor over a long period of time is incredibly helpful when trying to spot patterns and address issues with your ISP. Support site has a great deal of helpful tutorials and guidance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PingPlotter?

There really isn't much (if anything) to dislike. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

3/10/2021

"Easy to get info to the folks who know what it means"

4/5

What do you like best about PingPlotter?

My isp recommended it to collect the info they needed and it did that well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PingPlotter?

Don't think you can set a time limit for a test. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Bill M.

Unpaid Personal Assistant

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

12/16/2019

"PingPlotter For a Satellite Connection"

4.5/5

What do you like best about PingPlotter?

The great feature of PingPlotter is the ability to see the hops from source to server. On a satellite connection, being able to see the amount of latency present becomes useful in diagnosing problems. Packets dropped by a particular hop also provide good insight into what is going wrong. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PingPlotter?

I would like to see a greater ability to alert me when a duration or frequency of packet loss occurs, whether weather or usage of the signal compromises my connection. Pinpointing when is useful for talking to my provider. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

ANDRES F.

I am sure to surf the internet and what fortinet does in a group with the unified management of threats, the safe life for me

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

5/15/2019

"Supervisor of links with extended ping"

5/5

What do you like best about PingPlotter?

PingPlotter emerges as monitoring software for our company since we do not have a tool that would at least give us exact samples of the affected links that we have in our main office. PingPlotter is the most traditional tool that we have managed, thanks to the summation of links such as the internet and links of virtual private networks we have a more specific control, this helps us to have a history of 60 seconds up to 7 days as maximum verification of the status of the supervised link. Additional you can verify this link in intervals of time of seconds to maximum 1 hour, to check the frequency of monitoring Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PingPlotter?

Despite the few functions such as monitoring software is a very important tool to ensure that our links and the quality of service to the company remain without problem Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering PingPlotter:

I totally recommend the tool as a monitoring software to any link that you want to manage and demonstrate the quality of service. We do not underestimate the management, because it fulfills an important factor of supervision Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is PingPlotter solving and how is that benefiting you?

With PingPlotter we can make known how we do every day, a detail of each link that we are monitoring, for it we highlight that each link is always active, if a link is down and we have an alternate we can make the change instantly and we maintain active service Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Santiago R.

Network administrator

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

5/8/2019

"My Pinplotter experience."

4.5/5

What do you like best about PingPlotter?

Pingplotter is a tool that helps us to manage the states of data links. 'Pingplotter works adding the IP address that we want to monitor to have the graphs of the states, in our company we manage a large group of clients that have dedicated data links and I need a software to have a monitor to know the states of the links, for This pingplotter task is a tool that helps me to be aware of data links. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PingPlotter?

One of the weaknesses of Pingplotter is that it does not provide more information of the equipment, also when we have the software installed in windows server, it has failures, stopping services, this failure does not happen when it is detected in a Linux operating system, the program runs without problem and does not cause conflicts at the beginning. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering PingPlotter:

Add the links plus evaluation data to carry out more feasibility studies of data links. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is PingPlotter solving and how is that benefiting you?

It helps us in having monitored the branches to have monitored the services if they are down and have a base when they have to replicate against the suppliers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Bill L.

Consultant

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

7/16/2019

"PingPlotter Pro is an excellent tool for tracking and isolating network issues"

5/5

What do you like best about PingPlotter?

The tool has an easy to use interface and I can see all PING sessions at once. This allows me to trace all along the path to the provider or to the system with an issue and validate there is no loss or issue on the network. if there is it provides details of where the issue is occurring. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PingPlotter?

It is a little expensive for what it does but it does do it very well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering PingPlotter:

Try it before you buy it, it will win you over Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is PingPlotter solving and how is that benefiting you?

VOIP issue with carrier and we used PingPlotter Pro to isolate the delay and issue to a specific device on the carrier network. The carrier was then able to schedule a reboot and the issue was resolve. It saved a lot of time discussing with the carrier and them saying there was no issue. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.