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bp2008 / pingtracer

Graphical pinging and traceroute application. Ping Tracer continuously pings each network host between your computer and a given destination, helping identify the source of connectivity problems.

MIT License

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Feature Requests #3

Closed DerekFroese closed 6 years ago

DerekFroese commented 6 years ago

Very happy to have found this software, it's quite useful! Like MTR but graphical for Windows.

If I may humbly suggest some features that I would find useful:

Ability to manually input IPs to be pinged rather than using output of a traceroute. ---Sometimes it's handy to choose what you want to monitor - i.e. check latency to the switch that's in between you and a router that won't show up as a hop on a traceroute. ---Sometimes you may want to check pings to multiple ISPs or targets in different countries
Ability to choose less than 1 ping/sec. i.e. 1 ping / 5 sec. Sometimes I need to monitor network latency over a few days, and having 1 ping/sec means I can't see enough history.

Thank you so much for developing this!

DerekFroese commented 6 years ago

Just occurred to me that adding the ability to scroll or zoom the graph window would also solve the issue :)

bp2008 commented 6 years ago

Hello!

You can input multiple addresses (comma separated) already.

In tools > options you can increase the number of cached responses. 604800 for example should be 1 week at 1 ping per second. I'll think about enabling a longer ping interval though.

bp2008 commented 6 years ago

Click and drag the graphs to scroll. Change the scrolling multiplier in the options if you want it faster/slower.

DerekFroese commented 6 years ago

Oh, that's amazing! Thanks for the quick and thorough response.

lwarneminde commented 6 years ago

You can actually have less than 1 ping per second - if you type 0.2 in the 'Rate' spinbox it'll change to 0 when you tab away, but it'll still work and do 1 ping every 5 seconds.

bp2008 commented 6 years ago

Haha nice trick. I had never tried that.

I've just pushed a version 1.7 release which includes a new dropdown box for choosing between "pings per second" and "seconds per ping", supporting up to 600 seconds or 10 minutes per ping.

DerekFroese commented 6 years ago

Amazing! thank you!