PingLogger

PingLogger is an advanced networking tool capable of sending ping signals to other computers and recording logged activity to file. This way, you can find out the connectivity strength between your local machine and remote hosts, which especially comes in handy when you're preparing to establish a connection between the two for various purposes, such as multiplayer games.

After a fast setup operation that shouldn't give you any trouble, you're greeted by a large window with a neatly organized structure that includes a ribbon bar for standard and advanced configuration settings, along with a graph. Just make sure to run it with administrative privileges.

All you have to do is enter the URL of the remote hosts and click a button to start the monitoring and auto-logging procedure. While the monitor is running, you can check out the amount of sent, received, lost, minimum and maximum packets, examine the graph in real time, as well as view text statistics.

When it comes to advanced options, you can modify the default ping interval, timeout and bytes of packets to send, disable updates for the graph, database, memo and verbose mode, as well as create a new empty database, check for software updated, and export the existing database to CSV format.

It worked smoothly in our tests, without triggering the OS to hang, crash or prompt error messages. It didn't put a strain on the computer's performance, since it required a low amount of CPU and RAM to work properly.

Although it features advanced options for experienced users, such as network administrators, PingLogger can be handled with ease even by amateurs, thanks to its intuitive interface and well-organized settings. It's free for non-commercial use.