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• Freeware Spotlight — PingStatus

  Posted on November 15, 2020 at 21:15 CST by Deanna McElveen • Comment in the Forums
  

  BEST UTILITIES

  By Deanna McElveen

  In our neck of the woods, high-speed and reliable Internet connections can be a rare commodity.

  It’s not uncommon to report Internet issues to your provider via the phone, only to have a tech show up while everything is running fine.

  If this sounds familiar, then Bakidok’s PingStatus is the tool for you.

  Read the full story in AskWoody Plus Newsletter 17.45.0 (2020-11-16).

  AskWoody Plus Newsletter, Best Utilities, Freeware AskWoody Plus Newsletter, Deanna's Freeware Spotlight, Network testing, Ping

• Freeware Spotlight — eToolz

  Posted on February 17, 2020 at 01:00 CST by Tracey Capen • Comment in the Forums

  BEST UTILITIES

  By Deanna McElveen

  If you’re a relatively young computer tech or system administrator, you’re living in wonderful times.

  The ability to show up at a worksite with all your tools on a flash drive was the stuff of dreams for us floppy-totin’ grayhairs.

  To your many portable tools, I suggest adding Austrian developer Werner Rumpeltesz’s eToolz. It’s your go-to app for everything network-related.

  Read the full story in AskWoody Plus Newsletter 17.7.0 (2020-02-17).

  Best Utilities AskWoody Plus Newsletter, DNS, Networking tools, Ping, Trace