IPNetMonitorX is a powerful Internet/network troubleshooting toolkit for debugging Internet service problems and optimizing performance. Featuring 23 integrated tools, IPNetMonitorX is designed to help you quickly locate where the problem is and gather data which can be used to solve the problem either directly or through your Internet Service Provider.
IPNetMonitorX combines an intuitive Macintosh user interface with deep Mac OS X knowledge to provide essential problem solving details from a single convenient application. If you've ever struggled with why some Internet
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I had IPNetRouter & Monitor back in the OS 9 days, and it was amazing how powerful, easy to configure and comprehend it was. To other discounting the "G" part of the UI: Don’t. Being able to easily pull up all your information quickly and easily saves a lot of time and lets you absorb the information faster. I have a Network+ Certification, and having used this before I got my cert. made it a lot easier to get my bearings in networking.
Sure a real CLI pro could script multiple Terminal windows opening up at once, but an inexpensive, flexible GUI facade that is updated regularly and well supported is something many NetAdmins do not realize they need.
If you are a network admin and you save 12 minutes a day (completely possible IMO), at the end of the week you have another hour to do something else, including actually eating lunch out of the office. So, yeah it’s worth $60 considering it will pay for itself in within a month in saved man hours. Even a home user with a complicated setup could benefit for a fraction of the price of professional tools.
Sure it’s not “perfect” and there could be several graphical and feedback improvements, but the price:performance ratio and ROI is pretty awesome. But that’s just my opinion, and your mileage my vary. So, download the demo and try it out. What have you got to lose?
If would be a very nice sotware if it could graph pings like smoke ping or pingplotter
thats something I'd love to have for MAC
I wonder who is the target for this? I dont think any IT guy will pay even $20 for it cause people who need tcpdump etc know already how to do all of these from command line
Click the "Visit Developer's Site" link above and scroll down for a detailed explanation. A few features are just a GUI over tools supplied with Mac OS X. Some features have equivalents supplied with Mac OS X, but IPNetMonitorX has its own implementation, which the developer claims are better. There are also some features which don't come standard with Mac OS X (e.g. SNMP tool, TCPFlow).
As a Mac user since 1984, I have used products written by Peter Sichel for probably over ten years back well before the end of the Classic Environment. Any time I had a question, Peter responded personally and helped me resolve any problem I ever encountered. It was usually helping me through the Voodoo that is networking protocols and its intricacies.
I have used a variation of this program since System 9 and maybe before and would not be without it. Although regularly using other tools, I always keep a window (or several) open with the Monitor for 24x7 view of numerous ports I/O on every Mac I operate.
Peter's support is among the best I have ever received in over 25 years and his innovative Phone Amego allows integrating via Bluetooth my iPhone and Google Voice with multiple Macs as well.
I am a demanding user and Peter delivers great products that work well. He still supports software for machines that bit the dust many years ago, so he won't abandon you like many have me in the past.
Stars did not work properly, but overal i Rate ***** and *** for ease of use, but Peter makes it easier with 5 star support.
55,303 downloads and no comments in 19months (since June of 2009)? Who else finds that odd? No good reviews or bad ones for a year and 7mos? Highly unlikely. Where are the reviews?
First, I have no interest in this company, don't own any part of it, just a happy Mac camper who stumbled on this groups products back in OS 9.
IPNetMonitorX does a great deal more than the Apple network utility. It not only helps me "tune" my TCP/IP stack by providing feedback, it helps me diagnose problems when they occur on my DSL connection.
I find the software helpful for someone who is reasonably technical. I'm not sure that an entry-level user would benefit from more than just a few of the many features. I recommend this software for experienced users with a Broadband connection, it will be an invaluable help.
Does not work with my Airport card on a Mac Book or Mac Book Pro Intel, running OS 10.5.6. Running as System Admin. The Monitor just sits there blank and the Airport Signal page does nothing either. It works with an Ethernet connection hardwired to a router, but not with an Airport card. Very odd. As this is a release candidate I'm sure this will be fixed. But I'm not going to rate it. The developer has a very high reputation for solid dependable software.
On a MacBook the Interface Info screen the interface receive errors is not working correctly. It just counts up with no reason at the rate of approx 10/sec. The apple network utility shows no errors. I have reported this to the author but there seems to be no interest in fixing the problem. This has been going on for 3 months.
I have great interest in fixing the problem, but haven't had a way of reproducing it since it only appears on the AirPort interface of certain systems. Apple's Network Utility always reports the error count as 0 (possibly ignoring the bogus data from this device).
I'm expecting a new laptop shortly which may help in testing.
The error count with Apple's network utility is not always zero so I do not think it is in error. This problem has been reproduced on 3 different mac intels. The current error count is 26,000 plus and the computer has only been up 10 minutes. This is nice piece of software other than this problem. All of the other features work as advertised.
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IPNetMonitorX is a powerful Internet/network troubleshooting toolkit for debugging Internet service problems and optimizing performance. Featuring 23 integrated tools, IPNetMonitorX is designed to help you quickly locate where the problem is and gather data which can be used to solve the problem either directly or through your Internet Service Provider.
IPNetMonitorX combines an intuitive Macintosh user interface with deep Mac OS X knowledge to provide essential problem solving details from a single convenient application. If you've ever struggled with why some Internet feature isn't working, or just want to explore and understand better, IPNetMonitorX is here to help. The built-in description for each tool clarifies underlying network concepts as it guides you to answer real world questions about how your Internet is working.
Key Benefits:
A complete Internet Toolkit. Consistent, integrated design affords speed and efficiency.
A floating tool palette allows you to see and access the tools you need quickly. The layout of each tool is optimized for the task at hand.
Comprehensive displays show TCP/IP in action, perfect for tuning network performance.
Fast, asynchronous, multithreaded design allows you to see network behavior as it happens.
Open and use multiple tools or instances of the same tool simultaneously from a single application.
Input fields support recent targets or history, auto-completion, and drag-and-drop. Automatically transfers data from one tool to another.
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Noivad reviewed on 20 Apr 2012
Sure a real CLI pro could script multiple Terminal windows opening up at once, but an inexpensive, flexible GUI facade that is updated regularly and well supported is something many NetAdmins do not realize they need.
If you are a network admin and you save 12 minutes a day (completely possible IMO), at the end of the week you have another hour to do something else, including actually eating lunch out of the office. So, yeah it’s worth $60 considering it will pay for itself in within a month in saved man hours. Even a home user with a complicated setup could benefit for a fraction of the price of professional tools.
Sure it’s not “perfect” and there could be several graphical and feedback improvements, but the price:performance ratio and ROI is pretty awesome. But that’s just my opinion, and your mileage my vary. So, download the demo and try it out. What have you got to lose?
+6
mymon reviewed on 10 Jan 2012
thats something I'd love to have for MAC
I wonder who is the target for this? I dont think any IT guy will pay even $20 for it cause people who need tcpdump etc know already how to do all of these from command line
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Steve Frawley reviewed on 11 Jan 2011
I have used a variation of this program since System 9 and maybe before and would not be without it. Although regularly using other tools, I always keep a window (or several) open with the Monitor for 24x7 view of numerous ports I/O on every Mac I operate.
Peter's support is among the best I have ever received in over 25 years and his innovative Phone Amego allows integrating via Bluetooth my iPhone and Google Voice with multiple Macs as well.
I am a demanding user and Peter delivers great products that work well. He still supports software for machines that bit the dust many years ago, so he won't abandon you like many have me in the past.
Stars did not work properly, but overal i Rate ***** and *** for ease of use, but Peter makes it easier with 5 star support.
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propellor-head reviewed on 17 Jun 2009
IPNetMonitorX does a great deal more than the Apple network utility. It not only helps me "tune" my TCP/IP stack by providing feedback, it helps me diagnose problems when they occur on my DSL connection.
I find the software helpful for someone who is reasonably technical. I'm not sure that an entry-level user would benefit from more than just a few of the many features. I recommend this software for experienced users with a Broadband connection, it will be an invaluable help.
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Itty reviewed on 02 Oct 2008
I'd give it more than 5 stars but I can't.
Been using this app since the old
System 7 Days.
I have great interest in fixing the problem, but haven't had a way of reproducing it since it only appears on the AirPort interface of certain systems. Apple's Network Utility always reports the error count as 0 (possibly ignoring the bogus data from this device).
I'm expecting a new laptop shortly which may help in testing.
Sprave Roland rated on 09 Apr 2012
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mymon rated on 10 Jan 2012
Janus Madsen rated on 26 Dec 2011