Ookla has announced a significant milestone, marking the achievement of 50 billion Speedtest tests. Reflecting on this journey, Ookla emphasized that the first billion tests were reached back in 2006, a time when mobile apps were not yet in existence, and the global median download speed for fixed broadband was a mere 1.48 Mbps. Continue reading “Speedtest by Ookla clocks 50 billion tests globally”
Speedtest app is one such application we turn to test out internet speeds be it broadband or LTE speeds. The company today has rolled V4.0 that brings brand new design reminiscent of iOS that received the update back in December. This is the first major design change for the Android app since I have been using the old design with yellow Begin test button. Continue reading “Speedtest 4.0 for Android brings brand new design, now measures packet loss and jitter”
The Samsung Galaxy S6 edge was fitted with a Cat 6 LTE modem while the new Galaxy S7 Edge comes with a Cat 9 LTE modem. We did a speedtest of the device over the LTE network in Barcelona to show you the kind of speeds the smartphone can achieve.
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If you are a Speedtest.net addict like me, and if you happen to have an iOS device, the internet speed testing app for iOS got a huge update including a all new UI and support for iPhone 5. In the above screenshot you can see the new app UI which shows how the iPhone 5 is clocking crazy fast speeds over Vodafone’s 3G network here in Chennai. You can even share the speedtest result from within the app to Twitter, Facebook, email and SMS.
There is even an option to remove ads if you pay $1 or Rs.55. Much needed update for this app which is very useful when testing network speeds. If you already have the app installed on your iPhone, you must have the update notification within the app store.
Aircel has launched 3G in few cities this week and we got a chance to activate 3G on a number which we had lying around so that I could do this speed test. This test was taken in Chennai. To activate 3G on Aircel you have send an sms START 3G to 121
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