IDEA: Simple Windows diagnostic tools

There is a lot of various problems the users have. A simple debugging
wizard could help.

The application should be able to vizualize the sound coming from the
soundcard input (any form will do, being it a graph or just a level meter;
in Linux when I have no other tools I debug by "cat /dev/dsp" and watch
the nonsensical characters running over the screen), and play a sound
sample. The user then will be able to see if their sound subsystem works.

There should be also a packet monitor, using eg. WinPCap library to listen
for UDP packets on 2074:2075 ports, and showing presence of incoming and
outgoing packets. (I am using "tcpdump udp port 2074", but Windows don't
have tcpdump and the users who need this tool would need something
pointclickistic anyway.) Something simple like lighting a red indicator
for outgoing packet and green one for incoming one would do. Or a text
console outputting "." for outgoing packet and "*" for incoming one (I
got inspired by the one in Speex-modified speakfreely).
This may be a program on its own, a console tool, single-purpose for
SpeakFreely. Make it as easy as possible to see if the packets are going
out and if they are getting back in. Showing eventual ICMP responses like
Destination Unreachable would be optional and possibly quite beneficial.

For now I don't do Windows, so I can't help with it on my own yet. :(

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