NetStress Alternatives

NetStress is described as 'Tool that allows you to generate network traffic and analyze the network's throughput performance' and is an app in the network & admin category. There are nine alternatives to NetStress for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Oracle Solaris and FreeBSD apps. The best NetStress alternative is iPerf3, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like NetStress are Tessabyte, LANBench, goben and nuttcp.

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  1. iPerf3 icon

    iPerf3

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    The iperf series of tools perform active measurements to determine the maximum achievable bandwidth on IP networks. It supports tuning of various parameters related to timing, protocols, and buffers. For each test it reports the measured throughput, loss, and other parameters.

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    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • Android Tablet
    • Wine
    • FreeBSD
    • Docker
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    • iPerf3 is the most popular Windows, Android, Mac & Linux alternative to NetStress.

    • iPerf3 is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to NetStress.

    • iPerf3 is Free and Open SourceNetStress is Free and Proprietary
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    Tessabyte

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    An advanced network throughput testing utility for LAN, WLAN, and WAN: TCP/UDP, QoS, custom payloads, reporting, and scheduling.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  4. LANBench icon

    LANBench

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    LANBench is a simple LAN / TCP Network benchmark utility. It is designed for testing network performance between two computers and is based on Winsock 2.2. LANBench tests TCP performance only and is designed for minimal CPU usage so that the pure performance of your network...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  5. goben

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    goben is a golang tool to measure TCP/UDP transport layer throughput between hosts.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • FreeBSD
    • NetBSD
    • OpenBSD
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  6. nuttcp

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    nuttcp is a network performance measurement tool intended for use by network and system managers. Its most basic usage is to determine the raw TCP (or UDP) network layer throughput by transferring memory buffers from a source system across an interconnecting network to a...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Solaris
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  7. netperf

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    Netperf is a benchmark that can be used to measure the performance of many different types of networking. It provides tests for both unidirectional throughput, and end-to-end latency.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • VMware vSphere Hypervisor
    • Solaris
    • IBM AIX
    • HP-UX
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  9. Flent

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    The FLExible Network Tester.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
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  10. TamoSoft Throughput Test

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    A utility for testing the performance of a wireless or wired network that sends TCP and UDP data streams and computes important metrics: upstream and downstream throughput values, packet loss, and round-trip time, etc. It supports both IPv4 and IPv6 connections.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
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  11. OpenSpeedTest-Server icon

    OpenSpeedTest-Server

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    Launch a Network Speed Test Server. Without using any commands, test and fix your local network before pointing fingers towards your ISP for slow and sluggish Internet.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • Docker
    OpenSpeedTest-Server V2.1
     

    • OpenSpeedTest-Server is the most popular Web-based, SaaS & Self-Hosted alternative to NetStress.

    • OpenSpeedTest-Server is Free and ProprietaryNetStress is also Free and Proprietary
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