If you’re a network administrator, you probably know that it’s vital to know what’s happening inside the network, so getting to know each computer is a must do.

Free IP Scanner wants to make your life a bit easier by offering some useful features to get information about the computers in a given network, including the MAC address, the NetBIOS details or even the open ports.

You won’t find Free IP Scanner too difficult to use if you’re an experienced user, and we’re pretty sure you are since you’re a network admin, because it comes with the common features we’ve seen in this kind of software solutions.

You can thus define an IP range to scan, but also customize the process a little bit by mentioning the IP scan maximum threats, the IP scan and the port scan timeout.

Plus, you can choose to scan only a given port or multiple ones, it all depends on your needs.

The good thing is that Free IP Scanner displays some useful information once the scan ends, but the bad side is that it doesn’t provide you some other tools to connect to the scanned computers.

For example, some network admins might want to open computers, either in Explorer, with Telnet, via FTP or straight in the web browser.

An important fact is that Free IP Scanner doesn’t get too heavy on hardware resources when scanning the computer, but it could slow down older machines.

All in all, Free IP Scanner deserves a chance, but there is room for improvements and as long as other similar tools in the market provide more features, users might be disappointed.