Freeware Ping Logger / Plotter / Grapher
For many years I used a program called Big Brother to monitor the history of connections for a number of host computers. However it was only compatible with Windows 98; so to keep using it I had to run it in a virtual machine.
Well the good news is that it’s been upgraded to be compatible with XP and possibly higher.
It’s different to things like Ping Plotter in that it basically just shows you the history for the last x minutes or hours for a your specified servers.
You can see here for example that many of my hosts are offline and have been for the last four hors, and a couple are having a tough time with wireless broadband connections that aren’t working well.
It’s still free, and it’s from http://kin.klever.net/bigbrother/
Their webmaster appears to have an amusing sense of humour 🙂