Dota2Ping

Depending on where you live, and the reliability of your Internet service, playing certain games may not always be possible due to lag, and checking the quality of your connection manually is quite tedious.

Dota2Ping is a lightweight application that can be very helpful for Dota 2 players. It runs quietly in the system tray and checks your ping to a selected server at regular intervals, changing the color of the tray icon based on the latency.

Once installed and launched, you can access the application from the system tray. First of all, you need to select the server you wish to monitor and set the update interval; the program can perform a check every second, or at 5, 10 or 30 second intervals.

Whenever you want to check the ping, simply hover over the tray icon and it will be displayed in a tooltip. The color of the icon also changes based on the latency, from green to yellow to red. However, the steps cannot be customized.

For most, figuring out which region you should play in is not difficult, but some players have a hard time choosing between two or more servers that have similar latency.

This application lets you track the ping constantly, so it should make it easier to tell which region is more suitable for you.

In the end, Dota2Ping is a relatively simple program that does its job very well, providing you with a quick way to check your latency and ensure you won’t have to deal with lag while gaming.

The application is also very simple to set up, and it runs in the background without getting in your way. Since the color of the tray icon changes based on the latency, a single glance is all it takes to tell if you have ping issues or not.