Here it is, a powerful software application that finally gives you the ability to not only measure the Lag you live with in your games, but also to understand where your lag-related problems are coming from. Finally, the causes of your Lag will not be a mystery because LagMeter will tell you if it is your gaming PC, the network, or the gaming server that is giving you grief.

• License: Freeware
• Language: English
• Release: 2006-06-01
• Size: 993 Kb
• Cost: Free

Simple Network Tester measures network performance by sending test data between agents installed on any two Windows PCs. Tests cover available bandwidth, response time or latency and voice and video streaming quality Simple Network Tester's unique web-page user interface makes remote network testing easy. Tests are saved as normal browser bookmarks. You can email them or make a master "test" page for your intranet.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English
• Release: 2008-02-14
• Size: 3 Mb
• Cost: 149.00 $

VoIPerized is a so called VoIP (Voice over IP) program. VoIPerized enables you to make free audio calls to other people who also run VoIPerized. When making VoIPerized the focus was to minimize the latency, because other VoIP programs always seemed to have an irritating lag which makes the conversation seem unnatural. By using the open source Speex audio codec the audio quality is far higher than any normal telephone call.

• License: Freeware
• Language: Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Polish, Portugese-Brazilian, Spanish, Traditional Chinese
• Release: 2005-12-23
• Size: 315 Kb
• Cost: Free

Shunra VE Desktop is a network simulation software tool. It simulates a wide area network link, including latency, jitter, bandwidth and packet loss - enabling users to test applications under a variety of current and potential network conditions – directly from the desktop. With this insight, users can quickly find and fix application and network related performance problems before and after deployment in production.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English
• Release: 2006-11-01
• Size: 8 Mb
• Cost: 999.00 $

Network Catcher, from Shunra, is a free network monitoring tool that records latency and packet loss between your PC and any internet site. Use Network Catcher to monitor the quality of your network link. Network Catcher also integrates with Shunra’s network simulation technology, enabling users to capture and import production conditions directly into network simulation scenarios and test applications under real-life network conditions.

• License: Freeware
• Language: English
• Release: 2005-12-01
• Size: 533 Kb
• Cost: Free

VisualPulse enables 24x7 Web-based monitoring of Web pages, servers, and network nodes, providing web-based reports for Ping, HTTP, SNMP, and TCP performance. Automated alerts provide instant problem notification, and automated capture of traceroute diagnostics enables analysis of availability problems regardless of when the disruption occurred. Easy-access HTML reports includes standard and customizable reporting options.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English
• Release: 2005-04-25
• Size: 466 Kb
• Cost: 295.00 $