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SmokePing
SmokePing
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 long-term data store and to draw pretty graphs, giving up-to-the-minute information on the state of each network connection. Click on any graph in detail mode and use the mouse to mark your area of interest in the navigator graph. Show information from multiple targets in a graph. With one central Smokeping Master node, you can run a series of Slave nodes, taking their configuration from the master. This allows you to ping a single target from multiple locations. The standard deviation is now used in several places to give a number for the variation in round trip times as depicted by the smoke. Wide variety of probes, ranging from simple ping to web requests and custom protocols. Master/slave deployment model to run measurements from multiple sources in parallel.Starting Price: Free -
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Cacti
Cacti
Cacti provides a robust and extensible operational monitoring and fault management framework for users around the world. It is also a complete network graphing solution designed to harness the power of RRDTool's data storage and graphing functionality. Cacti includes a fully distributed and fault-tolerant data collection framework, advanced template-based automation features for devices, graphs, and trees. Multiple data acquisition methods, the ability to be extended through plugins, role-based user, group and domain management features in addition to a theming engine and multiple language support all right out of the box. All of this is wrapped in an intuitive, easy-to-use interface that makes sense for LAN-sized installations up to complex networks with tens of thousands of devices. Cacti requires MySQL, PHP, RRDTool, net-snmp, and a webserver that supports PHP such as Apache or IIS. At the center of Cacti and its database is the device and device template.Starting Price: Free -
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Proxifier
Initex Software
Proxifier allows network applications that do not support working through proxy servers to operate through a SOCKS or HTTPS proxy and chains. Redirect connections of any internet app (browser, email, database, game, etc.) through a proxy. Control access to resources. Route all your connections through a single entry point. Update multiple configurations remotely from a single place. Route internet traffic through faster routes. Lightweight and flexible alternative to VPN. Tunnel your connections through encrypted channels. Use a proxy as a gateway for your internet activities. Assign different proxies or chains to different connections using the rule-based system. Proxifier is always up to date with the latest OS versions, including Windows 11 and macOS Ventura. Native C++ app. No third-party dependencies. Installer size is 4 MB.Starting Price: $39.95 -
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Pia S5 Proxy
MARS BROTHERS LIMITED
Pia S5 Proxy is the largest commercial residential proxy service in the world. The availability rate of IP is 99.9%, there is no billing for invalid, the IP duration exceeds 12 hours, and the traffic and terminals are not limited. Support Socks5, HTTP(s), country, city, zip code and ISP level positioning, easy to integrate with third-party software such as fingerprint browsers and emulators. Acts as a residential SOCKS5 client is constantly working to filter out the underperforming ones. Proxies come from more than 200 countries, and the coverage is very wide. PIA S5Proxy Has a wide variety of purposes and use cases for which proxy would be ideal. Ad verification, social media marketing, affiliate testing, and more. Using 1 proxy costs 1 proxy balance Proxies balance is valid for life Supports country, city, zip and ISP targeting Support fingerprint browser, emulator and other scenarios Payment method support: credit card, virtual currency, Alipay, UnionPay payment, etc.Starting Price: $0.04/IP -
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Pyroscope
Pyroscope
Open source continuous profiling. Find and debug your most painful performance issues across code, infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines. Let you tag your data on the dimensions important for your organization. Allows you to store large volumes of high cardinality profiling data cheaply and efficiently. FlameQL enables custom queries to select and aggregate profiles quickly and efficiently for easy analysis. Analyze application performance profiles using our suite of profiling tools. Understand usage of CPU and memory resources at any point in time and identify performance issue before your customer do. Collect, store, and analyze profiles from various external profiling tools in one central location. Link to your OpenTelemetry tracing data and get request-specific or span-specific profiles to enhance other observability data like traces and logsStarting Price: Free -
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Prefix
Stackify
It’s easy to maximize app performance with your FREE preview trial of Prefix featuring OpenTelemetry. With the latest open-source observability protocol, OTel Prefix streamlines application development with universal telemetry data ingestion, unmatched observability, and extended language support. OTel Prefix puts the power of OpenTelemetry in the hands of developers, supercharging performance optimization for your entire DevOps team. With unmatched observability across user environments, new technologies, frameworks, and architectures, OTel Prefix simplifies every step in code development, app creation, and ongoing performance optimization for your apps and your team! With Summary Dashboards, consolidated logs, distributed tracing, smart suggestions, and the ability to jump from logs to traces (and back), Prefix puts powerful APM capabilities in the hands of developers.Starting Price: $99 per month -
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Proxidize
Proxidize
Proxidize is a proxy provider offering mobile and residential proxies, plus software to build and manage private proxy servers from one cloud dashboard. Proxidize Mobile Proxies feature US-based 4G LTE and 5G IPs with HTTP(S) and SOCKS5 support, automatic or manual rotation, unlimited threads, and 99.9% uptime. Plans are available per proxy monthly or per GB, with flexible scaling for different workloads. Proxidize Residential Proxies provide millions of real IPs across 190+ countries with rotating or sticky sessions, ISP, country, and city targeting included, unlimited threads, and rollover bandwidth. Pricing ranges from $1 per GB to $0.5 per GB for enterprise plans. All services are managed through a unified, browser-based dashboard with centralized control and monitoring.Starting Price: $59/month or $1/GB/month -
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HostedNetworkStarter
NirSoft
Using the Wifi hosted network feature of Windows operating system. With the wifi hotspot created by this tool, you can allow any device with wifi support to access the network and the Internet connection available in your computer. HostedNetworkStarter crashes when trying to start the hosted network. The crash occurs inside hnetcfg.dll while HostedNetworkStarter requests to disable previous ICS (Internet Connection Sharing) settings in order to set ICS for the hosted network. It's unclear whether this crash occurs because HostedNetworkStarter does something wrong or it's some kind of bug in ICS component of Windows 10. Some people reported that this crash started to appear after installing Windows 10 Anniversary Update.Starting Price: Free -
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Maryfi
Maryfi
Other Wi-Fi-enabled devices including laptops, smartphones, music players, and gaming systems can see and join your Maryfi hotspot just like any other Wi-Fi access point and are kept safe and secure by password-protected WPA2 encryption. MaryFi works in case you are using a proxy or even vpn connection. You can connect any WI-FI enabled device to a MaryFi connection. this includes but is not limited to smartphones, Android, Mac iOS, iPad, iPod, iPhone, and Apple TV. With Maryfi, users can wirelessly share any Internet connection such as a cable modem, a cellular card, or even another Wi-Fi network. Other Wi-Fi-enabled devices including laptops, smartphones, music players, and gaming systems can see and join your Maryfi hotspot just like any other Wi-Fi access point and are kept safe and secure by password-protected.Starting Price: Free -
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Free WiFi Hotspot
Free WiFi Hotspot
Free WiFi Hotspots can satisfy all your devices’ surfing needs! This super easy virtual WiFi router enables you to share the Internet from your laptop with your iPhone, iPod, iPad, Android phone, PSP, Xbox, Kindle, iWatch, Google Glass and other smartphones, e-readers, external media players, game consoles, smart watches, and even other laptops. Free WiFi Hotspot combines the connectivity merits of WiFi with the excellent mobile coverage of 2G/3G/4G cellular. You are allowed to set up a WiFi hotspot via a standard 2G/3G/4G modem. It can also share USB tethering connection and GPRS over WiFi. As long as your laptop is online, other nearby devices and your friends, families & coworkers will be, too. Free WiFi Hotspot is a virtual WiFi router that works like a real one so you don’t need to purchase a router or any other hardware from the store to make it work – it’s just free.Starting Price: Free -
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Winhotspot
Winhotspot
Winhotspot is a virtual wifi hotspot software for Windows Winhotspot stands for Windows hotspot, and this software which can be downloaded and installed on a laptop or PC will allow your laptop's internet to be shared by creating a wireless router virtually. It's free and easy to use and also has a lot of wifi tools you can check who is connected to your wifi hotspot, I forgot to mention that you can specify a password to protect your WiFi access point.Starting Price: Free -
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IP Fabric
IP Fabric
Automatic discovery, modeling, verification, and validation of your network state give actionable insight into the state of your network, providing evidence that it is delivering the service that your business requires. Automatic discovery, modeling, verification, and validation of your network state give actionable insight into the state of your network. Plan changes easily before the fact, and validate that the network is behaving as you expected post-change. Ensure that your actual network state is operating in alignment with your intent, contained in your source of truth. A single, consistent, and accurate view of the network across on-prem and cloud instances enables continuity between your network and cloud teams. Our open API means you can leverage the data from IP Fabric wherever you need it. Point-in-time snapshots provide the perfect tool for comparison of your network from day to day. Eliminate time-consuming, tedious, and error-prone workflows. -
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Jaeger
Jaeger
Distributed tracing observability platforms, such as Jaeger, are essential for modern software applications that are architected as microservices. Jaeger maps the flow of requests and data as they traverse a distributed system. These requests may make calls to multiple services, which may introduce their own delays or errors. Jaeger connects the dots between these disparate components, helping to identify performance bottlenecks, troubleshoot errors, and improve overall application reliability. Jaeger is 100% open source, cloud-native, and infinitely scalable.Starting Price: Free -
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Packet Sender
Packet Sender
Packet Sender can send and receive UDP, TCP, and SSL on the ports of your choosing. It also has a built-in HTTP client for GET/POST requests and Panel Generation for the creation of complex control systems. by sending customers a portable Packet Sender with pre-defined settings and packets. Create single-button panels that trigger a series of commands for control systems.Starting Price: Free -
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SHIELD
SHIELD
Device-First Fraud Prevention with Real-Time Identification & Intelligence. SHIELD's Device Intelligence persistently identifies devices, users, and accounts you can trust — and those you can't. Don't let fraudsters fool you. Make precise decisions about device trustworthiness with the global standard for device identification — SHIELD Device ID. Get the most comprehensive view of every user with real-time actionable device signals and continuous risk profiling. Eliminate risk blind spots, provide superior user experiences, and accelerate growth. Instant insights. No additional codes needed. Gain intelligence without giving PII data. Self-configurable risk thresholds. We return all data, and more. Get the full picture with transparent intelligence. Stay ahead of new and emerging fraud attacks. Real-time attack pattern syncing worldwide. -
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Torpedo
Torpedo
Revolutionize your website's online presence with Torpedo traffic generator. This innovative traffic generator is the ultimate tool for attracting visitors from various locations and boosting your website's visibility in the Search Engine Results Pages (SERPs). Experience unprecedented success and take your brand to new heights with Torpedo today. Select keywords relevant to your site to attract traffic from search engines. Get traffic from desktop and mobile devices with customizable sources for different operating systems and web browsers. Run multiple advertising campaigns to increase traffic to your site. Increase your website's visibility by getting referral traffic from various sites such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, or your own site. Schedule your traffic in advance with flexible options such as one-time, hourly, daily, or weekly scheduling. Torpedo offers various modes to generate traffic and optimize your website to increase its visibility in SERPs.Starting Price: $39.99 per month -
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IPFone
IPFone
IPFone is a telecommunications company that provides cloud communication, internet access, and business phone systems for small and medium-sized businesses. IPFone's services include: UCaaS Webex VoIP SD-WAN Contact center Fiber internet On-site installation In-depth training World-class customer support Unlimited international* callingStarting Price: 17.95 -
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711Proxy
VELOCITY WAVE LIMITED
711Proxy provides users with global IP proxy services, including 50 million + residential IP, covering 200+ locations around the world, highly pure, 99% availability. The proxy types include residential proxies, unlimited rotating proxies, static residential proxies, and SOCKS5 proxies, and support HTTP, HTTPS, and SOCKS5 protocols. Premium IP resources Integrate genuine residential IPs in 200+ locations around the world, highly pure, 99.9% usable. Unbeatable Price Choose the plan that best suits your needs and enjoy flexible pricing, tailored proxy solutions and Industry-leading cost performance without any contracts. Standout Support Our proxy experts are at your service, actively respond to customer needs. You can contact us via live chat, email at any time. Security & Anonymity 711Proxy always has a reliable connection, ensures anonymity and peace of mind, protects your online privacy and data security, say goodbye to blocks, restrictions, and CAPTCHAs.Starting Price: $1 -
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tcpdump
tcpdump
Tcpdump is a powerful command-line packet analyzer that allows users to display the contents of network packets transmitted or received over a network to which the computer is attached. It operates on most Unix-like systems, including Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, and macOS, utilizing the libpcap library for network traffic capture. Tcpdump can read packets from a network interface card or from a previously created saved packet file, and it provides options to write packets to standard output or a file. Users can apply BPF-based filters to limit the number of packets processed, enhancing usability on networks with high traffic volumes. The tool is distributed under the BSD license, making it free software. In many operating systems tcpdump is available as a native package or port, which simplifies installation of updates and long-term maintenance.Starting Price: Free -
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Arkime
Arkime
Arkime is an open source, large-scale, full packet capturing, indexing, and database system designed to augment existing security infrastructure by storing and indexing network traffic in standard PCAP format. It offers full network visibility, facilitating the swift identification and resolution of security and network issues. Security teams gain access to the necessary network visibility data essential for responding to and investigating incidents to expose the full attack scope. Designed to be deployed across multiple clustered systems, Arkime provides the ability to scale to hundreds of gigabits per second. It allows security analysts to respond, reconstruct, investigate, and confirm information about the threats within your network, enabling appropriate responses quickly and precisely. As an open-source platform, Arkime provides users with the benefits of transparency, cost-effectiveness, flexibility, and community support.Starting Price: Free -
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NetworkMiner
Netresec
NetworkMiner is a network forensics tool that extracts artifacts such as files, images, emails, and passwords from captured network traffic in PCAP files. It can also capture live network traffic by sniffing a network interface. Detailed information about each IP address in the analyzed network traffic is aggregated into a network host inventory, which can be used for passive asset discovery and to get an overview of communicating devices. NetworkMiner is primarily designed to run on Windows but can also be used on Linux. Since its first release in 2007, it has become a popular tool among incident response teams and law enforcement and is used by companies and organizations worldwide.Starting Price: $1,300 one-time payment -
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Sniffnet
Sniffnet
Sniffnet is a network monitoring tool designed to help users easily keep track of their Internet traffic. Whether gathering statistics or inspecting in-depth network activities, Sniffnet provides comprehensive coverage. It emphasizes user experience, ensuring ease of use compared to other cumbersome network analyzers. Completely free and open source, Sniffnet is dual-licensed under MIT or Apache-2.0, with the full source code available on GitHub. Developed entirely in Rust, it leverages this modern programming language to build efficient and reliable software, emphasizing performance and safety. Key features include selecting a network adapter to inspect, applying filters to observed traffic, viewing overall statistics and real-time charts of Internet traffic, exporting comprehensive capture reports as PCAP files, identifying over 6,000 upper-layer services, protocols, trojans, and worms, discovering domain names and ASNs of hosts, pinpointing connections in the local network.Starting Price: Free -
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WinDump
WinPcap
WinDump is the Windows version of tcpdump, the command line network analyzer for UNIX. WinDump is fully compatible with tcpdump and can be used to watch, diagnose and save to disk network traffic according to various complex rules. It can run under Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP, 2003 and Vista. WinDump captures using the WinPcap library and drivers, which are freely downloadable from the WinPcap website. WinDump supports 802.11b/g wireless capture and troubleshooting through the Riverbed AirPcap adapter. WinDump is free and is released under a BSD-style license. WinDump is able to use the interfaces exported by WinPcap. WinDump can run on all the operating systems supported by WinPcap. WinDump is the porting of tcpdump. It is possible to launch more than one session (on the same network adapter or on different adapters). Except for the increased CPU load, there are no drawbacks in using multiple applications at the same time.Starting Price: Free -
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BitMeter OS
Codebox
BitMeter OS is a free, open source bandwidth monitoring tool compatible with Windows, Linux, and macOS. It tracks your internet and network usage, presenting the data through a web-based interface or command-line tools. The Web Interface offers real-time graphs and charts, updating every second to display current connection activity. Users can access detailed bandwidth usage for specific dates and export this information to spreadsheets. The History pane visualizes usage patterns over hours, days, and months. BitMeter OS allows users to set customizable alerts for when internet usage surpasses defined thresholds. Additionally, the calculator utility estimates upload/download times and data transfer capacities. The Preferences pane enables interface customization, including a built-in RSS feed. BitMeter can only monitor network traffic going to/from the computer where it is installed. If you want to monitor multiple computers then you will need to install BitMeter on each one.Starting Price: Free -
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Massive Proxies
Massive Proxies
Leverage Massive's 100% ethically sourced residential proxy network to scale your data collection with market-leading performance and pricing. Our services support HTTP(S) protocols, providing back-connect rotating IP addresses worldwide with a 99% success rate and rapid 2-second response times. Massive ensures high reliability through 24/7 uptime monitoring and a 99.9% uptime guarantee. The platform caters to various use cases, including security testing, LLM training, ad verification, brand protection, market research, predictive analytics, price comparison, and SEO monitoring. Clients have praised Massive for setting high standards in ethics and compliance, significantly enhancing data collection efforts. Massive also offers a referral program, allowing participants to earn money by introducing new clients to their services. Back-connect rotating IP addresses all around the world. 99% success rate and quick 2-second response time for fast and reliable performance.Starting Price: $3.99 per GB -
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Tessabyte Throughput Test
Netmantics
Tessabyte Throughput Test is an application for testing the performance of a wireless or wired network. This utility continuously sends TCP and UDP data streams across your network and computes important metrics, such as upstream and downstream throughput values, packet loss, and round-trip time, and displays the results in both numeric and chart formats. It supports both IPv4 and IPv6 connections and allows the user to evaluate network performance depending on the Quality of Service settings. In addition to this core functionality, the application can generate reports, conduct pre-scheduled tests, and allows payload customization. Tessabyte can be used for capacity testing, link quality analysis, testing network congestion, WLAN performance evaluation, Quality of Service (QoS) assessment, firmware and hardware updates validation, network topology planning, comparative benchmarking, load balancing verification, SLA compliance verification, and hardware compatibility testing.Starting Price: $0 -
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Telex
Telex
Telex is a powerful real-time notification system designed to help users monitor their application performance, streamline team communication, and integrate seamlessly with third-party tools. With features like webhook notifications, collaboration channels, and advanced monitoring tools, Telex ensures users stay informed about logs, events, and system performance at all times. Core Products Telex offers a suite of monitoring and notification tools, including: Application Performance Monitoring (APM) – Track app efficiency in real-time. Server Monitoring – Keep an eye on server health and uptime. Cloud Monitoring – Ensure cloud-based services run smoothly. Database Monitoring – Detect and resolve database issues quickly. Network Monitoring – Monitor network traffic and performance. Log Monitoring – Analyze system logs for better debugging. Webhook Testing – Validate and troubleshoot webhooks.....Starting Price: $10/month -
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The Dude
MikroTik
The Dude network monitor is a network management application that automatically scans specified subnets to discover devices of any type or brand, then draws and lays out a dynamic map of your network in an intuitive interface. It monitors device and link status using SNMP, ICMP, DNS, and TCP protocols, presents individual link usage metrics and graphs, and issues real-time notifications when services fail. The tool includes a library of scalable SVG device icons, supports custom icons and background images, and enables you to draw custom maps and add devices manually. Installation and usage are streamlined with a Windows installer or via 32-bit Wine, and the platform offers both a local client and a remote server architecture for flexible deployment. Direct access to built-in remote control tools simplifies device management tasks, while automated network discovery and layout reduce setup time.Starting Price: Free -
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MyIPHide
Didsoft
MyIPHide is a lifetime free, browser-focused VPN proxy that unblocks websites and protects privacy by encrypting browser traffic with an optimized algorithm that claims to be up to 13 times faster than traditional VPNs; it uses static IPs, lets users switch IPs in 0.1 seconds, and hides the real IP address and location while bypassing censorship, school or company firewalls, and ISP spying. It works across several platforms with a single account and has no data limits or ads in its core apps, offering both a web proxy site with multiple preset endpoint speeds/regions for quick access and downloadable apps for deeper integration; encrypted connections can add SSL to sites that lack it, and cached content improves repeat-load performance. Paste a URL or launch the app, choose or automatically change the exit country, and surf with anonymity.Starting Price: $8.96 per month -
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TorRefresher
Assist AI, Inc.
TorRefresher is a lightweight Windows tray application designed to make using Tor simple and efficient. Built to work with the official Tor Expert Bundle, it gives you full control over your Tor connection without needing to touch the command line. 🔄 Automatic IP Rotation – Refresh your Tor circuit on a timer of your choice 🖱 One-Click Manual Refresh – Instantly change your IP from the tray 🌍 Exit Node Info – See your current IP and country at a glance 🔒 Bridge Mode Support – Works in censored regions with custom bridges ⚡ Fast & Lightweight – Runs silently in the background Setup is simple: download the Tor Expert Bundle, point TorRefresher to your tor.exe, and you’re ready to go. It does not modify Tor itself—it just makes managing it effortless. Whether you need privacy, censorship circumvention, or just quick IP rotation, TorRefresher makes it easy.Starting Price: $15.99