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Analyze the Airwaves with Speedtest.net
Speedtest.net, the Free Mobile App of the Week, serves as a wonderful way to test the internet speeds of your mobile devices as well as a test of your internet connection.
This app borrows the same user interface from its parent site speedtest.net. It calculates your latency, download rate, and upload rate. The measurement for these speed rates can be changed in the settings section. The settings pane also displays your external and internal IP.
The main function of this app performs with a single touch of the screen after taking a brief moment to find your optimal server. You can manually choose a server through the settings.
Once that is done, select “Begin Test,” to... begin the test. During my usage, testing took an average of 11 seconds. Speedtest.net saves all your results to the aptly named results window. You may choose to sort the result by a specific category in the settings. As far as I understand, Speedtest.net will automatically test via wireless internet if available. If you would like to test your mobile's data network speed, you must disable your wireless.
Regretfully, ads do sully what would have been a lovely app screen. The ads do not appear in any of the other pages.
Speedtest.net — Free Android / iOS App of the Week
For Android
Size: 3.0 MB
Download: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.zwanoo.android.speedtest
For iPhone
Size: 9.7 MB
Download: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/speedtest.net-mobile-speed/id300704847?mt=8
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A handy app for IT people setting up wifi in large buildings.
My apologies to anyone who was offended by article's original introduction. I, in no way, truly support hijacking nearby unprotected internet. In retrospect, it was a shortsighted attempt at humor that obviously had no place in a software review.
I amended the article to better reflect what this app should be used for.
My apologies once again.
Thank you for updating the article. I still think that you should not have deleted 3 comments in a row I posted regarding this article though. This is a community site and while we all value the contributions that people like yourself make, deleting comments that are critical of your work is bad form. I only hope that next time you will accept criticism and reply directly to the comments made rather than try and censor them.
Please read the rules before posting.
http://www.techsupportalert.com/freeware-forum/announcements/3617-forum-...
Yes, Gizmo's Freeware is very much a community and no other site offers the freedom to post as we do. That said, there needs to be a degree of control otherwise our volunteers will be continually tied up managing the torrent of trolls that would appear here if certain comments were allowed to remain. To offset this, we provide a facility for visitors to contact the site admin team direct if they feel something requires this attention. Anything so directed to myself will receive an almost instantaneous response, time zones permitting, and be deal with appropriately.
MC
Site Manager
I have read the terms before. If you could point me in the direction of which one of the them I broke specifically I would appreciate it. My goal was never to start a flame war and I didn't find any reason to contact the site admin for something as trivial as changing one or two sentences in an article.
Certainly. Part of Rule #7
"Flooding the board with comments coming from a single point of view in multiple posts".
I posted one comment, and when I came back to this page it was gone. I posted it again thinking that maybe I hit "preview" instead of "save". The next day that comment was gone. That's when I realized they were being deleted and asked the editor to stop deleting my comments and just respond.
The bottom line is you are the site editor and you can ban or delete any comment you like, but my comment was well informed and obviously I had a point since the article was changed with the offending reference to stealing wifi removed. If I was just trolling and my criticism had no merit, then why change the article?
I would also like to point out one of your own rules for this site that this article broke.
"5. You warrant that you will not post any message that is obscene, vulgar, sexually-oriented, hateful, threatening, discriminatory, in breach of copyright, of religious or political content, or otherwise in VIOLATION OF LAW or accepted community standards."
I think the editor has more than covered this in his own response. It is of course always a challenge because not everyone's sense of humour is the same, some folks will always take things at their literal meaning and cross cultural differences can make this even worse. Thank you for your understanding.
MC
Site Manager