Enterprise Ping is a 99-cent Android app available from Google Play. The app is developed by Enterprising Apps, the same company that developed Wolf WiFi Pro (for Android). Enterprise Ping is a graphical ping tool. Ping is simple, yet it's one of the most effective network utilities for troubleshooting connection and latency issues. Instead of using the boring old command line to execute the ping command, Enterprise ping provides visualization for pinging as well as graphing and logging functions.
The Good
With Enterprise Ping, you can ping two IP addresses or URLs at once. These IP addresses and URLs can be saved so that you can quickly initiate a ping when opening the app. You can switch back and forth between the two pings' screens to see detailed individual information on each ping such as percent of packet loss. However, both pings are displayed as two different lines in a graph on each screen, so you can constantly compare the two.
Ping displays statistics such as response time per ping and total response time since the ping request was sent, as well as maximum, minimum, and average ping response time. The app also shows number of packets sent, received, and lost.
The real-time graphing is sharply detailed and easy-to-read, even on an Android phone. You can quickly pull up a log file of the ping activity and export it as a .txt file to an SD card.
From within the app, a user can enable or disable wakelock, the mechanism for placing the Android device in a power-saving mode. Users can also enable or disable Wi-Fi from inside Enterprise Ping.
The Not-So-Good
Enterprise Ping is limited in functionality, even more limited than some of the free Ping apps available. You can only customize the packet size; you can't tweak other ping parameters like TTL or interval time between pings or any other settings.
I also noticed that pulling up the ping log overlaps the ping graphing so the log details are a bit hard to see.
Needs More Features
Enterprise Ping, if it's padded with more features, will probably evolve into an app that's worth more than a buck. You can do multiple pings, which you can't do in many ping apps; the graphing is slick, and exporting information is a breeze. It needs at least as many features as I mentioned earlier that some of the free ping apps offer.
Still, Enterprise Ping gets three stars for the multiple ping ability, the beautiful graphing, and the easy report exporting. Hopefully, more capability will be added in the near future.
