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Welcome to the PingPlotter Tutorial and Product Manual

Last revision date: April 28, 2005

Click here for the Ping Plotter FAQ.

Click here for the PingPlotter Getting Started Guide.

Introduction

How PingPlotter works

The Interface

• basic settings
• graphs
• file menu
• edit menu
• view menu
• exporting text

Configuration and Options Settings

• alerts setup
  • alert events - launch an executable
  • alert events - logging to a file
  • alert events - playing a sound
  • alert events - sending email
  • alert events - tray icon change
  • alert events - conditions for triggering
  • troubleshooting alerts
• command line arguments
• email setup
• auto save settings
• display settings
• general settings
• internet whois and proxy settings
• packet settings
• route change settings

Interpreting PingPlotter Output

• graphs - a quick example
• long-term monitoring/working with historical data
• ping plotter for the online gamer (though applicable to all)
• problems with your ISP
• recognizing bandwidth saturation
• service provider / bad hardware
• Voice over IP troubleshooting with PingPlotter

Advanced Topics and Tips

• advanced whois server setup
• automatic license key entry on installation
• changing thread counts
• changing timeline interval values
  

Related Links

• daryl's TCP/IP primer
• navas cable modem/DSL tuning guide
• broadband reports (your one stop shop for xDSL information)
• 808hi.com (tons of information for modem users)
• speedguide.net has equipment reviews, tweaks, etc.)

Other Interesting Stuff

• some thoughts on speed of light latency
• the ping page (links to lots of stuff related to ping)
• internet backbones and router instability (dated but a good read anyway)
• NetMon.org (lots of cool tools and links)
• the story of PING
• the museum of broken packets
• traceroute (and Pirates)
• when the CRC and TCP checksum disagree