ClearSight Analyzer vs Wireshark comparison

"What ClearSight will do is it actually maps out the conversation for you."

"This is the best protocol analyzer I've used and I've used some from WildPackets and quite a few other places."

"It gives us the ability to pinpoint problems and to communicate network problems with software and hardware vendors."

"I find Wireshark a very useful tool. Its best feature is that it allows me to deeply understand what's going on at the packet level, as well as any adverse signatures that I can analyze. When I need to create an IPS rule, I need to check the traffic deeply to get more insights about the actual traffic, what's the name of certain flags, etc., and I'm able to do all that through Wireshark. The tool is also user-friendly."

"Wireshark has been getting better and better in the time I've been using it and it is a very helpful tool."

"I believe everyone should use this tool if they need to analyze packets."

"The options that are required to get the details for the packet drops are good."

"The best thing about Wireshark is the community/ecosystem."

"Setup is very easy. It's also possible to change source code and compile if you want to change something in the code, because it's free."

"For example, while debugging through food issues, we can draw the graph of the data captured in the solution and see how the throughput is moving."

"I would like to see a multi-user version where you can have a launch platform and, potentially, instead of buying six licenses you buy 12 seats or something like that."

"I was upset when they sold the product to NETSCOUT."

"We'd like to be able to extract the output into an Excel table."

"The Wireshark search function shows green for a correct search and red for an incorrect search. If there were a way to provide a description about what a search - and the similar ones which are available - can do, while a person is typing it, it would make the product easier to use and simultaneously decrease the learning curve."

"Wireshark could be improved by adding more monitoring features."

"Wireshark's UI isn't easy to handle and doesn't have as nice a view as Omnipeek."

"The solution has a steep learning curve. There are so many filters and features that are frequently being updated, it takes research, experience and familiarity to be able to use them."

"The product is great but I wish there were more of an emphasis on the command line tools."

"It is not an easy program. You will need to study to use it to its full capabilities (follow a course)."

"A room for improvement in Wireshark is its ease of use for beginners. It could be better. Another room for improvement in the tool is for it to provide more details about the traffic load. At the moment, Wireshark is adequate for me, so there isn't anything I'd like added to it in its next version."

"It was pretty modest because you could get it in different ways. I think the six licenses, at that time, were about $1,000 each. But then again, I work for a school and educators tend to get discounts on things. So maybe it cost us about five or six hundred a copy."

"The tool is free."

"The solution is open source so is free."

"It is free."

"We are using a freeware version of this solution, so there are no licence costs involved."

"Wireshark is open source and gives great value and functionality to the network investigation."

"I am using the free version of this solution."

"It is free to download and install. It runs on multiple platforms, so how can you go wrong?"

"Wireshark is free software, so you don't have to pay any licensing fee. Individual people can use it and then donate to Wireshark."