Network Utilities

Network Utilities is a software tool which was developed in order to aid people in viewing information about their IP address and tracing a specified host.

The installation process does not last longer than a few moments and does not bring any kind of surprises. Once you finalize it, you come to meet a plain and clear-cut interface. It is comprised of a menu bar and a pane in which to display all the details that interests you. It becomes quite clear that all types of users can learn how to find their way around it, regardless of their previous experience with computer.

This software utility enables you to view information pertaining to your IP address, such as host name, internal IP address, subnet mask, default gateway and MAC address. These details can be set to automatically update or you can perform this operation manually when you see fit.

It is possible to ping a host, while also customizing the TTL and buffer size values, and choosing whether or not to apply fragmentation. Once this operation is finalized, you can view the packets sent, received and lost. You can easily look up details regarding a host and trace it.

The program can be rendered unobtrusive with just a click of the button, by sending it to system tray at any point. Help contents are not integrated, yet they are not actually necessary when considering how simple to handle it is.

To sum up, Network Utilities is an efficient piece of software when it comes to pinging, tracing and bring up information to an IP address or host. The CPU and memory usage is minimal, the interface is suitable to all types of users and the response time is good.