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Network Tools For Professionals: PacketTrap pt360

Posted by on Mar 5, 2009 | 8 Comments

In some cases, you may be connected to an intranet — meaning you need a set of tools to help you troubleshoot problems, or see a problem before you know it exists. PacketTrap’s pt360 allows you to flow results between tools and save network settings and favorites. The powerful, yet easy to use pt360 helps you tame your network. 

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You’ve pinged a server before to see how it responds. Instead of just getting numbers back, pt360 will give you a graphical presentation of how your Web site looks. There are a total of 14 extra tools that come with pt360 Pro, including things like Cisco config backup and a NetFlow analyzer. The free version is more limited, but still very useful. They are consolidating a bunch of open source tools into one dashboard. It’s hard to build your own interface, and PacketTrap has taken that difficulty away for you.

The suite of tools is all wrapped up into one graphical user interface, and is tabbed for ease of use. You can use the enhanced ping tool to list your DNS, as well. There’s also a DNS search tool, which allows you to check to see what sites are owned by whom.

Offered at just $99, the PacketTrap pt360 Tool Suite PRO consolidates dozens of network management and monitoring tools into a single, integrated interface. When ordering, you can receive a free tshirt simply by entering the coupon code CHRISPIRILLO.

This tool is great for small business owners, and even IT techs who have to go out into the field to troubleshoot networks. The tab feature is very easy and convenient to use. We use tabs in our Web browsers, so it makes sense to use them in our network tools.

Many of the similar tools you’ll find will cost you well over $1000.00. This one, however, is only $99.00. This makes it super-affordable for the smaller businesses who simply cannot afford those high-end tools. And best of all, this program works just as well — if not better — than many of those others!

Download PacketTrap pt360 today and try it free for seven days. I guarantee that at the end of the trial, you’ll be ready to buy the suite for yourself.

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  • http://twitter.com/JeremyBean1980 Jeremy Bean

    I find OnLive to work great with my Internet connection and have had very few problems and about bandwidth caps I can play OnLive 3 hours a day every day for a month and not get close to a bandwidth cap. Also the cost of OnLive is so much less than that of a conventional gaming system or PC. So I call BS on this entire article and I want to let everyone who reads this that you can download the OnLive app to your computer free and get a free membership to the service and demo any game free for 30 mins. I challenge each person to at least give OnLive a try and at no cost to you to even try the service you have no excuse to form your own opinions.

  • http://twitter.com/EnvoyOfTheEnd Ian Bunting

    While I agree to an extent about the potential responsiveness and reaction time, I do not tend to agree with the direction of blame being entirely on OnLive.

    OnLive or a similar hosted service, like many of the “Cloud” services nowadays are very reliant on the internet access being provided to realise their potential, and that is where I see things lacking.
    Increasingly stingy caps which do not take into account modern expectations or capability, and still patchy or inconsistent service is impacting on and slowing the progression of services reliant on that connectivity.

    Saying Netflix is bad because of a cap imposed by your ISP, or your car is bad because of poorly maintained/potholed roads is misplaced, and that is what I am seeing here.

  • Carl-Johan Sveningsson

    What a load of FUD. Pseudo-insightful latency times pulled out of his bottom and summed beyond any reason, have you even read anything about the technology innovation behind onlive? Clearly Onlive are stressing how important it is that you’re located close to their data center both physically and network topology-wise, optimally they want to colocate with your ISP. Also they have been frank about that you may want to skip the very latency-sensitive games. Still it provides some fascinating social gaming features and utilization of rendering power, in part because your buddies are actually playing within the same farm.

    It would be really interesting to hear proper analysis of the encoding and performance Onlive have been promising. Except network lag, are they delivering on their promises? Is their rendering algorithm really as innovative and has done away with the encoding window? Will gamers accept lossily compressed stream as compared to your crisp, locally rendered video?

    Please forget about the lag, that’s their strong point and maybe you don’t have a site close enough yet, live with it. Tell us about the interesting issues.

    • http://twitter.com/MattRyan Matt Ryan

      FUD is a pretty strong term, mate. Here’s the way I see it. A review should be based on someone’s personal experience with the product, and with both Brandon and myself experiencing the same issues, it means my review will reflect that experience. I’ve spent the past several years blogging about games and gaming, primarily, and during that time I learned how important consistent experience is to the overall longevity of a product. To say that OnLive is the future of gaming is inaccurate in my mind. Until OnLive (and other companies like it) are able to break through the restrictions some of their users are legitimately facing, they’re not a product I would personally endorse.

      That said, I would give the same basic review (and have) to other services that boast consistent and clear connections and fail to deliver unless the user meets a specific set of requirements. This review was honest, and based on the experience of more than one member of LockerGnome. For this to be a one-off issue would be remarkable.

  • Timothy Studer

    Wow. I HAVE played onlive. I prefer playing on it for one reason, lower system requirements. I can run it on a single-core, 64MB integrated graphics card and it runs FINE as long as my internet doesn’t crap out. Which is not onlive’s fault, but my service provider. I can play FEAR 3 with no problems, which my computer wouldn’t even think about attempting normally!

  • http://twitter.com/IamKevin24seven Kevin Hughes

    Yes I have used OnLive, and the experience is terrible!!….Most of the time I get a notification that the app won’t work because I lack the bandwidth.

  • Anonymous

    the usage cap is a major problem for me, making it impossible to use (unless I wanted to shell out about $50 extra every month for internet). I found the odd feeling delay in FPS games too annoying to bother with for long, but I did find that more “arcade” type games like platformers or racing games were just fine to play.
    It certainly “works”. But it’s not right for me :(

  • Daniel Angel

    Not true about your first point, The subscription gets you unlimited access to a pool of games, OR you can buy top tier games. You can do both but the subscription isn’t required. Anymore.