PingDoctor Alternatives

PingDoctor is described as 'Playing a game and lagging? Video streams constantly buffering? Poor video conferencing performance? Find out what's going on with PingDoctor' and is an app in the network & admin category. There are more than 25 alternatives to PingDoctor for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Web-based and Homebrew apps. The best PingDoctor alternative is SmokePing, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like PingDoctor are PingPlotter, Ping Tracer, gping (CLI) and mtr.

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  1. SmokePing icon
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    SmokePing is a deluxe latency measurement tool. It can measure, store and display latency, latency distribution and packet loss. SmokePing uses RRDtool to maintain a longterm data-store and to draw pretty graphs, giving up to the minute information on the state of each network...

    29 SmokePing alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
     
    • SmokePing is the most popular Linux alternative to PingDoctor.

    • SmokePing is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to PingDoctor.

    • SmokePing is Free and Open SourcePingDoctor is Paid and Proprietary
    • SmokePing is LightweightPingDoctor is not according to our users
  2. PingPlotter icon
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    PingPlotter is a graphical traceroute and ping tool that visualizes network performance in a way that makes identifying the source of problems quicker and easier.

    38 PingPlotter alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once or Subscription
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
    • PingPlotter is the most popular Windows, Mac, iPhone & iPad alternative to PingDoctor.

    • PingPlotter is the most popular commercial alternative to PingDoctor.

    • PingPlotter is Paid and ProprietaryPingDoctor is also Paid and Proprietary
  3. Ping Tracer icon
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    Ping Tracer continuously pings each network host between your computer and a given destination, helping visually identify the source of connectivity problems.

    29 Ping Tracer alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  4.  2 likes
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    Ping, but with a graph.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Homebrew
    • MacPorts
    • Chocolatey
    • Alpine Linux
    • FreeBSD
    • Fedora
    • Rust
    • Docker
    • Termux
     
  5. mtr icon
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    mtr combines the functionality of the 'traceroute' and 'ping' programs in a single network diagnostic tool.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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    Open source cross-platform (Windows/Linux/Mac) Java Visual Traceroute, packet sniffer and Whois. Data is displayed in a 3D or a 2D map component.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Chrome OS
     
  7. Trippy icon
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    Trippy combines the functionality of traceroute and ping and is designed to assist with the analysis of networking issues.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Snapcraft
    • Homebrew
     
  8. WinMTR icon
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    Free Network Diagnostic Tool. WinMTR is an equivalent of mtr for Windows.

    32 WinMTR alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • PortableApps.com
     
  9. Multiping icon
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    MultiPing is an application built for monitoring one or more TCP/IP hosts, while providing detailed historical information about the collection period. Using the proven and powerful PingPlotter engine technology, MultiPing allows you to monitor numerous targets simultaneously...

    22 Multiping alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    fping is a program to send ICMP echo probes to network hosts, similar to ping, but much better performing when pinging multiple hosts.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  11. GPING icon
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    GPING (Graphical Ping) is a powerful utility that pings and graphs multiple hosts simultaneously over a user-defined polling interval and generates detailed graphs. It comes with plethora of options for novice as well as advanced network engineers.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  12. Bping icon
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    Bping (pronounced "beeping") is a Windows ping alternative that beeps whenever it gets replies. I spend a lot of time diving under desks fiddling with network cables and got tired of looking up at the monitor to see how my pings were doing, and thus bping was born.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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