I rate OneTouch AT Network Assistant seven out of 10.

For any of the products, make sure it's going to do what you need it to do. Don't get it just because of the bells and whistles. You know, why buy a Ferrari if you're only going to drive an eighth of a mile to work, that kind of thing.

Fluke’s not cheap, but you get what you pay for.

Out of all the years, with the few issues I've had – no matter what product you have, you're going to have issues – I have to give it a perfect rating.

Have a plan. Know what you are looking for and what you want to do with it. You don’t want to have a product that cost a couple thousand dollars sitting on your desk doing nothing. If you don't have a need for it, there's no point investing on an expensive product and not knowing how to use it or use it at all.

Purchase the support. It's very easy to implement, as I’ve mentioned. If you've got some basic background in networking, TCP/IP, it's very easy to implement. Basically the meter, you turn it on and plug it in. Just plug it into a network and it's going to give you some information. What you do with that information, though, is where having some experience with networking comes in handy.

I've been very happy. It has gotten me some jobs, because I've been able to come in a troubleshoot things that no one else has been able to.

The advice I’d give to others looking into implementing this product would be positive. It just depends on what you’re going to be using it for. The applications we use it for, for troubleshooting, work well for us. It just depends on who's going to be doing what with it.

For me, it's easy to use. It always gives me accurate information. It's never crashed or had issues.

It is pretty big, but the way it's designed, you can pull the module off, and put a different type of module on to do other stuff. So I don't know how small they could shrink that thing into.