myIP 1.x Now Available

[Darius Wey]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.slipstreamsolutions.co.uk/products/myIP.htm' target='_blank'>http://www.slipstreamsolutions.co.u...oducts/myIP.htm</a><br /><br /></div><img src="http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/images/web/2003/wey-20050616-myIP.gif" /><br /><br />Slipstream Solutions has just released myIP - a utility which allows you to do all sorts of things with an IP address (e.g. ping, resolve, etc.). A trial version and the full version is available from <a href="http://www.handango.com/ampp/store/PlatformProductDetail.jsp?siteId=311&productId=167069&productType=2">Handango</a>. It's selling for $9.99. [Affiliate]

[SiliconAddict]

The Cambridge network tools (vxIPConfig and vxUtil) can do this for free :roll:

[Jereboam]

I was going to point out the same...not to knock somebody's efforts of course, but why pay for this when you can get this function and about a dozen others for free? For personal use, that is.

[Kowalski]

funny, everyone who read the article think of the same thing, vxutil.
coupled with wifi forum, they do a good job

[ipaq_wannabe]

when i read the new post email in my inbox, i think to myself - why pay US$9.95 if you can get the same functionality for free?

well, to be fair to the other guy - there must be something that would separate it from vXutil to market it at that price, right? unless they wouldnt know of vXutil...

[ctmagnus]

I'm thinking that while vxUtil is freakin' useful, it ain't exactly the easiest on the eyes. That may be where the $9.99 comes in.

[SlipstreamSolutions]

Hi guys, thanks for the comments. As already guessed by ctmagnus, myIP is designed for less-technical users. We had a customer who asked us to develop this for their mobile user population and we productised it. The app's being burnt into an RUU file for them by i-mate.

We do know about vxUtil, but myIP is designed to be much easier to use (for example, it sits at the bottom of the Today screen and can be brought up with a single click).

Scenario is that when a user calls into a helpdesk the techie on the other end can get them to read back the device's IP address, ping and port-check a nominated server/port (in the instance with our customer, a oneBridge server). The techie can then trouble-shoot the user's connection, telnetting back to the device etc.

Best regards!

Joanne