Speed Test app. How fast is your connection?
The Speed Test app for Android is brought to us by speedtest.net who provide a free to use analysis tool for testing broadband internet connections via their web site.
The app does pretty much the same thing for your Android phone – providing latency (ping), download and upload time tests. This isn’t the most feature packed app in the world but the results are interesting and it’s very well executed. Results are stored, so you can check your connection (wi-fi or 3G) at various times of the day and in different locations (if that’s the kind of thing you like to do) and you can choose which server to connect to too. Good job since my local server consistently refused to allow the download test for some peculiar reason.
 3G on T-Mo. Not that bad. |
 Test results. 3G & wi-fi. |
Interesting fact: My G1 managed an upload speed on a 3G connection almost as fast as my supposedly-much-faster wi-fi connection.
In truth, there’s probably not a lot of point to this app but it is quite revealing and I guess useful if you’re experiencing problems with your connection.
Speed Test is available for free in the Android Market. An iPhone version is also available.
November 10th, 2009 at 12:45 am
I’ve been reading along for a while now. I just wanted to drop you a comment to say keep up the good work.
January 20th, 2010 at 11:41 am
I also agree this isn’t the most feature packed app in the world but the results are interesting and it’s very well executed.