


SmokePing is described as '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' and is a Network Monitor in the network & admin category. There are more than 25 alternatives to SmokePing for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Homebrew and Docker apps. The best SmokePing alternative is Tracebar, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like SmokePing are mtr, PingPlotter, Ping Tracer and Trippy.



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

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.


Specialized tool purposefully designed to simplify network monitoring and to help everyone who is concerned about their network stability. CocoPacket mainly keeps track of latency, packet loss, and traceroute.




EMCO Ping Monitor is a freeware ping-monitoring tool that checks the hosts availability and the connection quality and sends notifications on the host up/down and other events.




Test your Internet connection for lost packets or high latency to ensure that your gaming and communication is always reliable.


NetMap watches hosts to be accessible via protocol ICMP. For this purpose the program periodically sends requests, completely similar to requests of program PING and checks for replies, which indicates activity of hosts and proper functioning of network connections.





