WinPing

When your day-to-day activities depend on a powerful Internet connection, it's best that you regularly test it out. A basic test consists of sending a ping in order to determine response time and possible data package loss. WinPing is a light utility that comes equipped with several tools to aid you with this task.

A simple and clean interface greets you once the application is launched. Most of the space is dedicated to displaying gathered result, with an upper toolbar that lets you set the website to ping, and a few other functions.

The application lets you manually configure a few rules for accurate results. The options menu lets you choose elements to be displayed, set timeout in milliseconds, enable multiping and the duration, or even enable an infinite loop procedure, with the possibility to input a custom number of loops to run before stopping.

What's more, you can bring up a graph that helps you better visualize data displayed in the main window. Parameters are calculated according to the amount of time it takes to receive data packets in regard to the number of loops.

The application gives you the possibility to save gathered data to a log file. This function can also be automated for a detailed report after long testing procedures. Amongst others, provided data includes loop number, target IP, duration in milliseconds, and average of the response times.

The application can also be used to test connections remotely by simply providing the target machine IP address. General rules apply, with no further configurations needed to be done. Moreover, all hosts are saved in a drop-down menu so you easily re-test connections.

Taking everything into consideration, we can say that WinPing is a small and handy application that can be used by anyone in order to test connection to the Internet or a local machine. The interface gets you quickly up and running, with the graph providing neat visual support. It's worth a try if you're looking for thorough traffic info.