NetTest

NetTest is a very lightweight, yet efficient application designed to diagnose your network parameters in order to let you know exactly what’s failing to work.

The application spears you the manual effort you’d have to put into testing a network connection yourself. The traditional method implies several command line operations, which are eliminated in NetTest, because it delivers everything you need in order to effortlessly diagnose your network.

NetTest is aimed at home users, as well as remote-support environments, providing the possibility to ping the specified remote server without performing complicated operations.

It’s easy to use and comes inside a simple design. Another advantage is that of portability, allowing you to carry it on a removable drive and launch it on any computer without writing to the system’s registry.

The main window sports a very basic appearance, allowing you to start the tests at once by simply pressing a button. The parameters that are put to try are the local IP address and gateway, the public and the remote server. Please note that in order to test the latter, you need to specify its address using the File menu.

The diagnosis process takes very little while, with the results being displayed in the main window. If everything turns out to work fine, then the test result will simply state ‘Passed’, but if not, you’ll know where to take action, at least, because every parameter is tested and shown separately.

In a nutshell, NetTest is an easy to use and accessible utility that performs simple network tests, therefore helping to troubleshoot the most common network problems.

However, a more sophisticated design, together with a wider array of network tests would make it appropriate for more advanced operations.