If you head on over to endlagnow.org you cna download yourself a free Lagmeter which actually seems to be a pretty advanced and configurable tool for monitoring the network performance of on-line games. This is part of Bigfoot Networks campaign to end on-line gaming lag, the next step of which is some sort of hardware processor to speed up network gaming, very interesting indeed.

"Hardcore gamers know that Lag can be caused by many different forces, and that Lag has no formal definition – it's a term that gamers use to describe something bad that happens in an online game that is out of their control" said Harlan Beverly, CEO of Bigfoot Networks. "With LagMeter, gamers can quantify and narrow down the cause Lag in their favorite games."