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1.
IP Address or DNS name of the destination you want
to trace. If you enter an IP Address here PingPlotter will start tracing immediately
before the IP is resolved to a name. The name will show as "resolving"
until the request is complete.
2. If the site you wish to trace is already listed, you can select it instead
of typing it in. To delete a host, right-click it in the list and select “Delete”.
Double-clicking on a site in this list starts a trace to that site.
3. The Route Change pane is used to show the history
of route changes. Anytime any hop in the route changes, PingPlotter stores
the old and new route data and adds the time of the change to this list box.
Double-clicking on any time will show the route as of that time. This is the
starting time for the change.
Double-clicking on the time-line graph (covered in the next
section) will refocus the upper graph to the period you double-clicked on
the lower time-line graph. The route window will also follow this - to show
the route that was current at the time you selected.
4 . The # of times to trace allows you to stop
tracing after a certain number of times. If you’re only interested in a
set trace count, you can save some bandwidth by not allowing PingPlotter to
trace forever.
5. The Trace Interval is the amount of time PingPlotter will wait between each sample set. If 
you’re
doing a long term monitoring project, you may want to set it to be 1 minute
(or more). If you’re doing a quick test, you might want to set this to
something lower (5 seconds or 10 seconds). If the up/down arrow doesn’t
have the amount of time you want, just type the time interval you want (e.g.
3.5 seconds).
6. When running a trace, PingPlotter can look at just the most current samples.
This is great to watch "trending" (where the response changes over
time). If you include ALL samples (type 0 in this field for ALL), then after
a lot of samples, new samples don't affect the graph very much. Setting this
to something like 10 allows you to see how the response times are right now.
All numbers in the trace (upper) graph are affected
by this. When zooming in on the timeline graph, it's important to
not have this set to "ALL".
