gping vs PingInfoView: catalog facts
gping | PingInfoView |
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Free Free and open source under the MIT licence. |
Free Freeware from NirSoft, free to use and redistribute unmodified. |
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Windows, macOS, Linux, Command line |
Windows |
- A live graph makes latency spikes and loss obvious at a glance
- Graphs several hosts at once with custom colours for comparison
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- Pings many hosts continuously in one window
- ICMP and TCP port pings over IPv4 and IPv6
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- Needs a terminal that supports the drawing it does; output is not pipeable
- Raw sockets may require elevated privileges on some systems
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- Very many concurrent pings can produce false failures
- TCP ping only tests the connection, not the service
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Downloadable app |
Downloadable app |
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Open source |
Closed source |
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License: MIT |
License: Freeware |
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No account needed |
No account needed |
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Needs internet |
Not stated if it works offline |
Checked September 21, 2026 | Checked October 8, 2026 |
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