Earlier this week we made available to our customers and partners the Open Mobile client v2.2 for Windows. One of the things I wanted to highlight with this release is a great new feature that really focuses on helping users know the quality of the Wi-Fi connection they are connecting to.
Anyone who travels frequently probably has a good understanding of the fact that the quality of Wi-Fi varies tremendously by location. Everyone has encountered a Wi-Fi hotspot that seems to just drag along making doing anything productive a challenge. Latency issues can impact the quality of voice and video streaming as well.
There can be many factors that impact both the speed and latency of a Wi-Fi connection. It can depend on the quality of the internet connection that the Wi-Fi hotspot is presenting to mobile users, it can depend on how many users are using that connection, it can depend on how much data other devices sharing that connection are using, it also can depend on interference from other Wi-Fi enabled devices in the area. All of these factors can vary throughout the day meaning a Wi-Fi hotspot that offers a screaming fast connection in the morning could be dragging in the evening.
So to help users know the quality of their connection when they connect, we introduced a new ?Speed Test? capability in this most recent release. When a user connects to a Wi-Fi hotspot there will be a quick connection quality indicator available in the form a color code that will show on the main Open Mobile screen (see the green dot in the first screen shot).
Then for a more detailed diagnostic, the user can select the new ?Speed Test? button, which will do a more detailed test of the current latency and download speeds available at that hotspot connection. This test will also advise if the current connection is suitable for reading email, Web browsing, voice or audio streaming and then video streaming. ?
This provides a great Wi-Fi usability tool for mobile workers. Users can quickly ascertain if their current connection will be suitable for what they want to accomplish, if not they can attempt to find a more suitable connection. Also, if you are using the Open Mobile client to connect to and manage a 3G/4G device on your laptop, you can use this Speed Test feature to test the current latency and download speeds of that connection as well.
Note that to take advantage of this new feature, the Open Mobile client for Windows must be running client version 2.2 or greater as well having this capability enabled by the Open Mobile administrator. While this is only available for the Open Mobile client for Windows, our hope is to add this capability soon to all other client platforms.
Tags: Open Mobile Platform, wi-fi access?
Source: http://www3.ipass.com/blog/how-fast-is-your-wi-fi/
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