Alternatives to PingPlotter
Visualizes latency and packet loss hop-by-hop to find where a connection breaks down. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
PingPlotter
Visualizes latency and packet loss hop-by-hop to find where a connection breaks down.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as PingPlotter.
Trippy
Combines traceroute and ping into one live interface showing loss and latency at every hop along a route.
Trippy is a free Apache-2.0 terminal tool showing live per-hop loss and latency with GeoIP and AS lookups, running on Linux, BSD, macOS and Windows.
mtr
Combines traceroute and ping into one continuously updating report.
mtr is a free GPL-2.0 command-line tool for macOS and Linux combining traceroute and ping, with a report mode suited to support tickets.
WinMTR Redux
Inspect network paths with the WinMTR Redux desktop tool.
WinMTR Redux is a free open-source Windows desktop tool for repeated path measurements with IPv6 support, without PingPlotter's paid tiers or long-running timeline view.
gping
Ping with a live graph, so you can see latency spikes and packet loss instead of reading a column of numbers.
gping graphs ping latency live in a terminal for several hosts at once, but shows only end-to-end results rather than a hop-by-hop breakdown.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
iputils
The Linux ping, tracepath, arping and related network utilities.
Cloudflare Speed Test
A browser-based internet speed test that measures throughput, latency, jitter and packet loss.
Downdetector
A website that shows whether online services, networks and games are down, based on real-time user reports.
Speedtest CLI
Official Ookla speed test for the command line.
