Most of the time, your phone is using up battery time that could intelligently be saved. But manually making changes like switching from Wi-Fi to your phone’s Internet is something not everybody remembers doing. Here to help automate this and profile changes is an app called Connection Planner. Connection is a free smartphone application for [...]
Are you planning to switch to a better local ISP? If yes, then do not select the next ISP based on the “˜great’ packages they advertise. Instead, base your decision on real speed tests of all local ISP users. Through “Ookla Net Index” you can view a summary of those real speed tests. Ookla Net [...]
Users who like to download stuff from the internet such as music and movies know how important it is to have a good bandwidth connection. If your bandwidth is low, even your smallest downloads can take hours to complete. There are many tools to test internet download and upload speed but one of the simplest [...]
Have you ever wondered who someone you are talking to or reading a post by on the Internet is connected to? Who are their online connections? MashedIn shows people connections and attempts to replicate the experience of going through “oh you know this one” or “do you know that one?” or “have you ever worked [...]
If you want to check whether your firewall or ISP is blocking certain ports (that you need to get things done) on your computer, then here is a simple solution for you. CanYouSeeMe is a website which provides you with a free utility to remotely test for open ports on your system. When you are [...]
Connectify is a desktop tool that turn your pc/laptop into a wireless access point. Working essentially as a front end for Window 7′s “virtual wi-fi” feature, Connectify allows you to share the internet connection of your laptop with other users. It is also handy for keeping all your mobile devices connected from one internet source [...]
At first glance, PingTest might look like any other broadband speed test service out there. However, it isn’t one of those. It doesn’t check the speed of your connection. Instead it checks the overall quality of the connection that determines how well it can stream videos, play music and online games. You may call it [...]
If you feel that your Internet connection got unreasonably slow, head on to Netalyzr to find out why. It is a free online applet that can analyze internet connection for all sorts of problems including blocking of important services, HTTP caching behavior, DNS settings, bandwidth measurements and more. It prints its findings in a detailed [...]