If you wish to view the quallity of your connections, and even log the request/respons delay or other relavant network information, then try http://www.unispeed.com/netloggerse.html It is only a passive network sniffer, but it will allow you to do very complex analyse setups with all kinds of traffic. What if they block ICMP (ping) packets? will ping plotter use TCPping or anything like that?