SpeedTest Test wifi on a cell phone
SpeedTest is an interesting tool to measure coverage from your mobile device or browser. It is used to view the coverage and analyze the results of Wifi coverage in any place, coffee shop, office, waiting room. The application is easy to install on a mobile, laptop, tablet and gives us easy to interpret results. You can identify yourself in the system and it will offer you a history of measurements with times, date and Ip addresses or name of the device from where you run the tests.
The documentation is in English and there is a developer page. There is a free and a paid version. Speed Test Web
It is interesting to take into account the device from where the tests are made, it is not the same a device that has a 2.4 Ghz receiver or a 5 Ghz receiver or both. It should also be taken into account that it is not a precision application in that it depends on the Internet access of the wireless network itself, so that sometimes a malfunction of the same can induce measurements that score below the quality of the network itself when in fact we are getting a bad measure of Internet access.
There are many tools to measure the speed of Internet access and measures of “Site Survey” or site discovery, wireless network deployment projects are usually a lot of field, and to provide good coverage is required not only to have a network electronics and cabling correct, if not study other elements that may affect the coverage, by electromagnetic noise, such as electrical machinery, elevators, etc..
