Features present in all versions include traceroute, reverse DNS and Whois lookups, Ping tests as well as the display of the actual route of connections and IP address locations on a global map.

Visualware made sure that their tool is flexible and loaded with options. VisualRoute allows you to target a specific port when scanning and when it comes to monitoring you can have VisualRoute do a traceroute every X minutes and than compare the data. This can be useful in a number of situations, like when looking for packet loss for example. If you need to keep a close watch you’ll be glad to know that VisualRoute supports continuous network latency reporting from a browser.

You can save your traceroutes as well as export them in HTML format. What’s missing here are some formatting options that would allow you to make the output a bit more pleasing to the eyes of the graphics-hungry management.

If you are the owner of a Business, Support or Professional Support edition of VisualRoute you'll be able to add your own map image (such as a network topology for example) to the software. This will be of great help when analyzing connection paths on a distributed network and finding out where problems are occuring. The supported image types are BMP, GIF, JPG and WMF.