The apps have databases of over 2,000,000 WiFi hotspots and passwords and show the ones that are nearby on a map. Wifi Master Key Apps are tools for smartphone users that are useful for searching for, connecting with and managing Wifi access.
WiFi Speed Test Appsįor testing the real speed of the WiFi, I went with Speed Test SpeedSmart WiFi & Mobile Network. It does exactly what it’s supposed to do: Measuring latency, download and upload rates of the WiFi network that you're currently connected to.Ī cool feature of this app is the 'connection grade'-my connection received a 'B' because my average speed was 23.84 Mbps, maximum speed was 28.24 Mbps and minimum speed was 16.22 Mbps, which is fast but it's not Fiber-Optic fast. Generally speaking, there are tons of premium paid apps out there for the IT professional, but for this purpose I was more concerned about simple speed insights.Įxtremely annoying things happen when there’s an interference in the mix-should you ever want to calculate RF interferences, check out the RF toolbox.
This free app turns your Android phone into a WiFi network analyzer. It shows the WiFi channels around you and helps you to find a less-crowded channel for your wireless router. If you are on Android you might find the Wifi Analyzer app helpful. For now, I was more concerned about the real ping and general upload and download rate on the network. With showing a more flatline giving you the cleaner results of your ISP.Testing additional functionalities would have required me to download Network Analyzer Pro, which includes a network speed tester, ping statistics, WiFi LAN scan details and wake on LAN, visual trace route, Whois and DNS lookup, fast/adaptive port scanner, DLNA service browser and scan & query history. The graphical interface showing in a line graph of both incoming and outgoing testing shows how smooth or dirty you results can be. If is set automaticly to the closest point from you ISP. You still have the option of selecting where you want to test to. The options of saving your test along with running it in the menu bar and haveing the capability of uploading it to about 23 different places (depending on your Mac’s configuration) listed under your System Preferences/Extensions/Share Menu The response is quick and the reporting is reliable, free from all the overhead of the browser and any cache etc that can and would be in the way. This app is well put together and the options it gives you are just what is needed with no extra fluff. I always found that depending on your web browser you could get different results and its far better to have a local run application to cut out as much of noise from applications to get a truer picture of what your results are. I retired from IBM in 2008 with 30 years of working with computers/networks Speedtest has been my go to network test for as long as I can remember.
I have been a longtime Ookla Speedtest user for many moons….
How do software engineers let stuff out the door like this? I’m still rating this a 3 because I like this app so much, but these bugs need to be addressed FAST. If your speed is 95, the needle point back at like 0 or 5. So if your speed is being measured as 30,the needle points to the exact other side of th dial and says soething like 400. But the new “added feature” of this current release is that the indicater needle on the dial now points in the 180 degree opposite direction of the measurement.
Now it is set to 500 and there’s no way to change it. You used ot be abe to calibrate the dial so that….for example….if your connections are generally in the range of 0-100 mbps, you could set the top end of the dial to 100. The most recentupdate has some obvious bugs that I can t beleive they did not catch before releasingthis to the public. I love this app and have used it for a longtime. Best speed testing app out there and also the prettiest interface IMHO. I appreciate their super-fast attention to this. The major bugs disussed below were fixed by the developer only a day after they were reported.