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, Solaris and FreeBSD apps. The best NetStress alternative is iPerf3, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like NetStress are JPerf, goben, nuttcp and netperf.

NetStress alternatives are mainly Internet Speed Test Apps but may also be Network Analyzers or Benchmark Tools. Filter by these if you want a narrower list of alternatives or looking for a specific functionality of NetStress.

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NetStress

Free • Proprietary

Tool that allows you to generate network traffic and analyze the network's throughput performance.

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iPerf3
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Free • Open Source
Internet Speed Test App
Network Analyzer
Mac
Windows
Linux
Android
Android Tablet
Wine
FreeBSD
Docker
20 iPerf3 alternatives
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.
- - iPerf3 is the most popular Windows, Android, Mac & Linux alternative to NetStress.
- - iPerf3 is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to NetStress.
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1. Root requiredRequires root to use iPerf3, mainly relevant for Android apps.
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JPerf
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Free • Open Source
Network Analyzer
Mac
Windows
Linux
17 JPerf alternatives
This project gives a better UI and new functionalities to the initial JPerf 1.0 project based on the iperf network bandwidth measurement tool.
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Discontinued
The last update was released on May 5th, 2009.
goben
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Free • Open Source
Mac
Windows
Linux
FreeBSD
NetBSD
OpenBSD
6 goben alternatives
goben is a golang tool to measure TCP/UDP transport layer throughput between hosts.
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nuttcp
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Free • Open Source
Internet Speed Test App
Windows
Linux
Solaris
8 nuttcp alternatives
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...
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netperf
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Free • Open Source
Benchmark Tool
Mac
Windows
Linux
VMware vSphere Hypervisor
Solaris
IBM AIX
HP-UX
12 netperf alternatives
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.
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Network Tools
Flent
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Free • Open Source
Network Analyzer
Benchmark Tool
Mac
Linux
BSD
10 Flent alternatives
The FLExible Network Tester.
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Flent Features
Network Tools
TamoSoft Throughput Test
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Free • Proprietary
Benchmark Tool
Mac
Windows
11 TamoSoft Throughput Test alternatives
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.
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LANBench
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Free • Proprietary
Internet Speed Test App
Network Analyzer
Benchmark Tool
Windows
10 LANBench alternatives
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...
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LAN
Discontinued
Website no longer available
OpenSpeedTest-Server
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Free • Proprietary
Internet Speed Test App
Network Analyzer
Mac
Windows
Linux
Online
Self-Hosted
Software as a Service (SaaS)
Docker
19 OpenSpeedTest-Server alternatives
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.
- - OpenSpeedTest-Server is the most popular Web-based, SaaS & Self-Hosted alternative to NetStress.
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OpenSpeedTest-Server Features
Network Tools
Network Scanner
Network speed monitor

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