Better Paping

A lightweight tool to ping TCP ports, websites, and Minecraft servers right from your terminal.

Why I made this

Normal ping uses ICMP, which most firewalls and game hosts block or drop. Standard paping only does basic TCP.

I wanted one fast tool that does three things without installing extra runtimes or bloated tools:

1. TCP Ping: Check if a specific port is open and measure real socket response times.
2. Web Ping: Ping HTTP and HTTPS URLs with status codes and latency.
3. Minecraft Ping: Automatically finds Minecraft SRV records (so you do not need to look up backend port numbers) and queries server version info.

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Downloads

Grab the prebuilt binary for your system from Releases:

• Windows: Download betterpaping_windows_amd64.zip, extract, and run betterpaping.exe
• Linux: Download betterpaping_linux_amd64.tar.gz
• macOS: Download betterpaping_darwin_amd64.tar.gz (or arm64 for Apple Silicon)

Or build it yourself with Go:

git clone https://github.com/zyrexdz/Better-Paping.git
cd Better-Paping
go build -o betterpaping betterpaping.go

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Quick Examples

TCP Port Check

# Continuous ping to Cloudflare on port 80 (500ms interval)
betterpaping tcp 1.1.1.1 80 500 0

# Ping your server on SSH port 22 ten times
betterpaping tcp my-server.com 22 1000 10

Website Ping

# Ping a website every second for 60 seconds
betterpaping web https://google.com 1000 60

Minecraft Server Ping

# Automatically resolves the SRV record and connects
betterpaping mc play.hypixel.net 25565 650 0

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Color Codes

• Green: Fast (< 80ms)
• Yellow: Medium (< 180ms)
• Red: Slow (> 180ms) or dropped connection

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Options

Usage: betterpaping <mode> [options]

Modes:
  tcp <host> <port> [interval_ms] [count]
  web <url> [interval_ms] [duration_sec]
  mc  <host> [port] [interval_ms] [duration_sec]

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License

MIT