Broadband Reports readers are already familiar with ICSI Netalyzr, a free network measurement and diagnostic tool developed at the International Computer Science Institute at Berkeley. Netalyzr's a "two-mouse click" network tester that runs in your web browser as a Java applet. It performs a long series of network probes and tests to identify potential problems in your network connectivity, and summarizes its findings in a detailed report.
Now the folks behind the Netalyzer tool have dropped us a line to note that they've released a
version of Netalyzer that now runs on Android.
The ISCI tells me the application is the full Netalyzer test suite, with nothing removed specifically for phones (with the exception that bandwidth tests are not enabled by default to conserve bandwidth).
Like the desktop version, it will notify users of service blocking, HTTP caching behavior and proxy correctness, your DNS server's resilience to abuse, NAT detection, as well as providing latency & bandwidth measurements.
"You can start a test and it will run in the background, share your test results, and its now in a form that fits in your pocket and doesn't need Java in the web browser," Netalyzer developer Nicholas Weaver tells me. Weaver says he's
happy to answer user questions in our comment section below.