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FCC App Lets Android Users Measure Mobile Broadband Speed

Posted by Soulskill on from the fast-enough-except-when-it's-not dept.

itwbennett writes "The FCC's new Android app will allow users to measure the speed of their mobile broadband connection, while providing aggregate data to the agency for measuring nationwide mobile broadband network performance. Released as open-source software on Thursday, the free FCC Speed Test App will test network performance for parameters such as upload and download speed, latency and packet loss. An iPhone version of the app is in the works."

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  1. Re:Tempting... but no thanks. by aitikin · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Being that it's open sourced, I'll wait 2 months and someone will audit the code, then I'll consider it. (yes, I don't know enought o do that myself).

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  2. Re:Tempting... but no thanks. by icebike · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Won't be useful, unless you want to do nothing but download the same chunk of data over and over again.

    We can only hope that the authors were wise enough to request randomly named data blocks from randomly selected data servers, because otherwise we will be measuring the effectiveness of the carriers cache at the nearest tower base.

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