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Internet Speed Test: 5 utilities to test your speed

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An internet speed test can give you the down-low on your download and upload speeds, detailing whether or not your internet service provider is living up to its end of the broadband contract.</div>
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Of course, there are a lot of options out there to test your internet bandwidth, and some sites and apps offer more statistics than others.</div>
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To help narrow the broad range of broadband testing services out there, we have put together a list of the five internet testing destinations to try out in browsers and through iOS and Android apps.</div>
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1. Speakeasy / MegaPath Speed Test Plus</h3>
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One of the most popular destinations for an internet speed test has been Speakeasy.net, which began analyzing 56K and broadband connections in the 1990s. Today, the site simply redirects to <a href="http://www.megapath.com/speedtestplus/" style="color: #0099cc; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">MegaPath Speed Test</a>, which provides a similar function, but MegaPath still keeps the popular and much-cooler-sounding Speakeasy brand around.</div>
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But MegaPath now gives the millions of people who test their broadband connection new reason to hop on over to the new site: the MegaPath Speed Test Plus. This enhanced version features packet loss, latency and jitter tests in addition to download and upload speeds calculations.</div>
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Sure, MegaPath Speed Test Plus takes a few minutes longer and scares users with a couple of "needs to access your computer" warning messages. But it can determine if there's something wrong with your internet line besides the average download and upload speeds.</div>
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2. Speedtest.net</h3>
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It's always good to get a second opinion, and that's why <a href="http://www.speedtest.net/" style="color: #0099cc; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Speedtest.net</a>should be the very next website you visit to test your internet speed. More than 50 million people do just that on this flashier-looking broadband performance evaluator, which happens to be owned by Ookla, the very same company that licenses MegaPath's underlying engine.</div>
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However, Ookla's Speedtest.net does a little more for frequent testers - it allows users to create an account, save their results and rate their ISP. It's then possible to flip to another page and compare the speed test results to other broadband owners in your area.</div>
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3. Official ISP Speed tests</h3>
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Ookla is also used as the underlying engine for ISP-branded speed tests, but it's still a smart idea to use them to sample your download and upload quality. After all, ISPs can't argue when you're using their own tests to determine the poor quality of your internet connection.</div>
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<a href="http://speedtest.charter.com/" style="color: #0099cc; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Charter Communications</a>, <a href="http://speedtest.comcast.net/" style="color: #0099cc; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Comcast</a>, <a href="https://idm.east.cox.net/coxlogin/ui/internettools?TYPE=33554432&REALMOID=06-b6c69bf3-75c3-1017-a6a3-84a733520cb3&GUID=&SMAUTHREASON=0&METHOD=GET&SMAGENTNAME=-SM-ZJOGVvuyc%2bCvrPvWwBaEKN4pxa8K6uGuSAOMjV5DF1jFYlHrA4PMFmXZ2KnuwP9s&TARGET=-SM-https%3a%2f%2fmyaccount.cox.net%2finternettools%2fspeedcheck%2fspeedcheck.cox" style="color: #0099cc; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Cox Communications</a>, <a href="http://www.timewarnercable.com/en/residential-home/support/speed-test.html" style="color: #0099cc; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Time Warner Cable</a> and <a href="http://my.verizon.com/services/speedtest/" style="color: #0099cc; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Verizon FiOS</a> are some of the ISPs that ping your download and upload speeds. <a href="http://www.att.com/speedtest/" style="color: #0099cc; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">AT&T did have a speed test</a> for its DSL and U-Verse fiber optic customers, but in perfect AT&T fashion, this is down and just points everyone to use <a href="http://www.speedtest.net/" style="color: #0099cc; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Speedtest.net</a>.</div>
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4. SpeedOf.Me, the HTML5 internet speed test</h3>
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On the forefront of internet speed tests is <a href="http://www.speedof.me/" style="color: #0099cc; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">SpeedOf.Me</a>, which skips the flash and the java required by all of the aforementioned broadband testing services. Its use of HTML5 technology means that it works with iPhone, iPad, Android and <a href="http://www.techradar.com/reviews/pc-mac/software/operating-systems/windows-phone-8-1086692/review" style="color: #0099cc; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Windows Phone 8</a> mobile devices.</div>
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While it's claim of being "the smartest and most accurate online bandwidth test," remains up for debate, it can be considered the flashiest internet speed test without the flash. Big wavy lines that stretch the width of your computer screen make up this unique website.</div>
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5. Speed test apps for iPhone, iPad, Android</h3>
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Apps dedicated to testing your mobile device's speed can be found in the<a href="http://www.techradar.com/news/software/applications/we-did-it-well-someone-out-there-hit-50b-app-store-downloads-1151792" style="color: #0099cc; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Apple App Store</a> as well as <a href="http://www.techradar.com/news/phone-and-communications/mobile-phones/getting-more-from-google-play-1127867" style="color: #0099cc; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Google Play</a>. Ookla cornered the market on iPhone and has a big following among Android devices with its Speedtest.net Mobile Speed Test application.</div>
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However, this isn't available as a native app on the iPad this app. Owners of Apple's popular tablet can download Speedtest X HD for free instead. Another company looking to get in on the mobile internet speed testing craze is Speed A.I., which offers an alternative to Ookla's Android app with the app-ly named Internet Speed Test.</div>

An internet speed test can give you the down-low on your download and upload speeds, detailing whether or not your internet service provider is living up to its end of the broadband contract. Of course, there are a lot of options out there to test y…

How To Overclock your Android Device with SetCPU

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Want to get better performance with your rooted Android device? Use a free application called SetCPU to overclock your device, boosting it’s performance and, in some cases, also extending it’s battery life.</div>
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I. Before you begin.</h3>
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1. You must have a rooted Android device. If you would like to root your phone and haven’t yet, head on over <a href="http://theunlockr.com/how-tos/how-tos-advanced/android-how-tos/" style="-webkit-backface-visibility: hidden; -webkit-transition: 0.25s; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a7c9b; text-decoration: none; transition: 0.25s;" target="_blank">here</a> to our How to section to find your specific device. 2. You must have previously installed a custom kernel on your phone. If you haven’t, head on over <a href="http://theunlockr.com/2011/08/22/how-to-install-a-custom-kernel-on-a-rooted-android-device/" style="-webkit-backface-visibility: hidden; -webkit-transition: 0.25s; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a7c9b; text-decoration: none; transition: 0.25s;" target="_blank">here</a>, to  learn our “how to flash a custom kernel” tutorial. 3. To save from an potential headaches, I recommend doing a back up to easily revert to in case something goes wrong.</div>
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II. Installing SetCPU.</h3>
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1. Open up the Android market application. 2. Search for “setcpu” (without quotations). 3. Select download, then select install.</div>
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III. Using SetCPU.</h3>
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1. Open up the application. 2. Once open, select “Auto Detect Speeds”. 3. When asked to allow root access, select OK. 4. Select both the maximum and minimum speeds you would like to use (BE CAREFUL here, DO NOT go to high or too low as your phone may stop operating. Do not choose “set on boot” until you are comfortable with the set up). If it stops become responsive, pull the battery, go into recovery and do a system restore. 5. Once you get the satisfactory speeds, select when you would like the application to kick in (i.e…user space, performance or on demand).</div>

17 3 0 Want to get better performance with your rooted Android device? Use a free application called SetCPU to overclock your device, boosting it’s performance and, in some cases, also extending it’s battery life. I. Before you begin. 1. You must ha…

5 Ways to Speed Up Your Android Phone in Under 5 Minutes

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Speed Up Your Android Phone
You used to love your Android handset, but now that it has slowed down considerably, the bloom is off the rose. When you hit the home button or launch a new app, it takes what seems like an eternity to switch to the new task or back to the desktop. Maybe your Android phone has become so slow that letters appear a second or two after you type them. Fortunately, you can rekindle the romance and speed up your Android phone in under 5 minutes if you use these simple tips. Talk about a quickie!

1. Clear Your App Cache (30 seconds)
Over time, your programs write to the app cache on your phone and eat up precious system resources while slowing everything down. You can clear the cache on any individual app by visiting its property page in the Settings menu and tapping the clear cache button, but with dozens of apps on most phones, it could take an eternity to do this manually.

Clear Cache Settings

App Cache Cleaner, a free app, makes it easy to delete the cache on all your apps at once with just a couple of taps. After installing and launch App Cache Cleaner, simply tap Clear All and you’re done.

Cache Cleaner

Of course, the cache will fill  up again over time, and you’ll want to delete it again. App Cache Cleaner has an Auto Clear feature. If you enter its settings menu, tap Auto Clear Interval and select a duration, it will automatically clear the cache on a regular basis. However, this means that the app needs to run in the background.

Auto Clear Interval in App Cache Cleaner

Installing and using App Cache Cleaner for the first time should take around 30 seconds.

2. Disable or Uninstall Unused Apps (60 seconds)
You may not know it, but many of the apps you never even use may be running in the background, eating up precious system resources. From the app that you tried for 5 minutes last month to the shopping app that came preloaded on your phone, every unused app has the potential to weigh your phone down. It’s easy to uninstall apps you’ve downloaded yourself, but crapware is a little harder to dispose of.

If you have rooted your phone, you can completely remove every trace of your preloaded apps. If not, you can still disable those apps through the settings menu. It should take about 10 seconds to uninstall or disable each app you don’t want. It should take you approximately one minute to get rid of 6 apps, longer if you have more crapware to dump.

MORE: How to Remove Android Crapware

3. Install a New App Launcher (30 seconds)
Your phone’s app launcher controls your desktop, lock screen apps menu, and other critical parts of the UI. Though every Android phone comes with its own preloaded app launcher, you can install a third party launcher that will not only change the look and feel of your device, but also speed the time it takes it to navigate around the OS. There are many different launchers available in the app store, but we found Lightning Launcher Home to be among the fastest and easiest to use.

To use Lightning Launcher or another launcher of your choice:

Install Lightning Launcher from the Google Play store.
Tap the Home Button. A menu appears asking you which launcher you want.
Select Lightning Launcher and Tap Always.
 Set to Lightning Launcher and Select Always
Downloading the Lightning Launcher, and setting it to run as your default should take 30 seconds.
4. Remove Unnecessary Widgets and Shortcuts (30 seconds)
Even with a speedy App Launcher installed, your phone will use more memory the more widgets and shortcuts it has in memory. Look through your desktops for widgets you don’t absolutely need and remove them by long pressing and dragging them off screen.

Remove a Widget

A number of phones with widgets that advertise services such as media stores or news services. Unless you really want to look at a list of hot YouTube videos or Google Play Books on your home screen every day, remove these.

Dragging half a dozen shortcuts and widgets off  of your desktops should take 30 seconds.

5. Limit or Disable Background Data (10 to 60 seconds)
Your email, your Gmail, your Facebook, your Twitter and your backup app all want to ping the Internet for data on a regular basis. All that syncing not only eats up your battery, but also takes up system resources and slows your device down.

There are some services you may want to sync in real time, but there are others you can check manually. For example, if you don’t need to be alerted the moment you get a Facebook mention or receive an email to your personal account, you can prevent those from connecting in the background.

To disable background data for all apps:

Navigate to Settings.
Tap Data usage.
Select Data Usage 
Launch the context menu by tapping the three dots in the upper left corner of the screen or hitting the menu button (on Samsung and LG phones).
Select Data Usage
Toggle Autosync data to off and tap Ok on the warning that comes up.
Select Autosync Data
To disable background data for Gmail, Google+ and other Google Services:

Navigate to Settings. You can get to the Android settings menu from the notification drawer or apps menu.
Tap on Google under accounts.
Tap the Account You Want to Stop From Syncing 
Tap the account name.  If the sync icon next to the account name is green, it has sync permission. If it is gray, syncing is already disabled.
Select Your Gmail account
Toggle all types of data syncing to off, including email, contacts and calendar.
Toggle Sync to Off 
To turn off background data in other apps such as Facebook or the standalone email client,  you must go directly into their settings’ menus and find the option to never update or update manually. Disabling all your background at once should take just 10 seconds, but if you want to manually disable Gmail, Facebook and email client autosync separately, this process could take as long as a  minute.
Depending on how many apps you need to uninstall and services you wish to disable, you could finish speeding up your phone in as little as 2 minutes and 40 seconds. That’s a very small time investment to make your smartphone snappier.

Four tips to speed up your Android tablet

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If your Android tablet is starting to bog down and become unresponsive, these four tips may help. 
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I've seen it before with a number of devices; Android tablets starting to bog down to the point of not being responsive at all. What do you do? Is it time to reset that tablet to factory defaults? Probably not. Instead of scrapping the current state of your tablet, try these four quick tips to regain control of your wayward Android tablet.

Since every Android tablet is not created equally, some of these tips will either not work or their steps might vary. I'll be demonstrating on a Verizon-branded Samsung Galaxy Note with Android version 4.1.2. Let's begin with the most obvious tip and work our way down.

1. Restart
Sometimes, a restart is the fastest means of getting your tablet resources back. Of course, this is also (depending upon your device) the slowest method. Plus, if you're in the middle of working on a file or cloud resource, you could lose your work. However, if it's the only route to success, it must be done.

To restart your tablet, follow these steps:

Press and hold the power button
When prompted, tap Restart
Tap OK when prompted
Allow the device to restart
I would never say this is the best method of getting your resources back -- or controlling a wayward application. For that, I would use the built-in task manager. Let's now work through using that tool to manage your running tasks.

2. Task manager
Although you might not be currently using an app, said application could still be residing in your tablet's memory. Fortunately, task managers are always at the ready to help you close apps that currently reside in memory. Android has a very handy built-in Task manager that's quick to access and easy to use. It also attempts to close applications that haven't been used in a while. Most of the time, it does a good job -- but sometimes, an application will prove too stubborn for the Task manager to close. When that happens, it's time to go manual mode on that rogue app.

To access the Task manager, tap the multi-task button on the device panel (third from the left on Samsung Galaxy tablets). From the running app list, you can tap Close all (to close all running applications) or Task manager (to open the task manager tool).

Once you have the Task manager open (Figure A), you can tap End all (to close all running applications) or the End button associated with a particular application.

Figure A

Figure A
The Task manager on a Verizon-branded Samsung Galaxy Note tablet.

Be aware that the more applications you have in memory, the less memory will be available -- at least until either the Task manager starts closing some apps or you do it manually.

3. Watchdog
If the built-in Task manager doesn't seem to be catching rogue apps, there's a third-party application that does a great job of doing just that. The application is called Watchdog. This application monitors running apps so you can easily see if any have gotten out of hand and are eating up your CPU. There is a free version called Watchdog Task Manager Lite and a full version that costs $3.49 (USD) called Watchdog Task Manager. The paid app removes advertisements and includes a blacklist, which allows you to choose an app, assign a CPU threshold to it, and have Watchdog automatically kill the app should it exceed the set threshold.

The free version gives you quick access to what apps are using the CPU (and how much of the CPU they are using, as shown in Figure B).

Figure B

Figure B
The Watchdog CPU listing shows a pretty smoothly running system.

What isn't obvious about Watchdog is that from the CPU listing, you can kill, Whitelist, or launch an application. To do that, tap on the app listing and slide it to the right. A new popup will appear (Figure C) that allows you to take those actions.

Figure C

Figure C
How to act on a running application in Watchdog.

The Watchdog Alerts tab will show any application that is misbehaving. If anything pops up in this window, be sure to kill it (from the CPU tab).

4. Read reviews
Finally, I would like to say this: The Google Play Store doesn't have the Big Brother-like vetting system that the Apple App Store enjoys. Because of this, questionable apps can make their way into the Play Store -- and then onto your device. Make sure you read reviews of apps before you install them. Many times, when an app is questionable, it will be mentioned by at least one reviewer. If you see mention of malware in a review, avoid that app completely.

The Android platform makes for a smooth running tablet experience. There are times, however, when you'll need to know what to do should an app go rogue. Whether you use the built-in Task manager, a third-party tool, or simply reboot your device, it's pretty easy to get control of your apps and speed up the processing power of your Android tablet.

If your Android tablet is starting to bog down and become unresponsive, these four tips may help. android_tablet_performance.jpg I've seen it before with a number of devices; Android tablets starting to bog down to the point of not being responsive …

Apps to Increase Android WiFi Connection Speed

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Sometimes you might creep in with some astonishing problems on your Android smartphone. One of them is having a bad Android WiFi connection speed. Since certain functions on your Android mobile phone needs WiFi connection. Having a bad WiFi connection can really spoil your mind.

If you are facing a bad connection speed. Just try out the following Android apps to increase your Android WiFi connection speed.

Internet Connection Booster

This is an awesome app that can speed up Android connection up to 20%. With this application installed on your device you can speed up instantly WiFi/GPRS/UMTS internet connections. Besides that it can also boost Bluetooth connections up to +20%.

The app works in two ways to speed up your connections:

By simply optimizing system configuration parameters of your Android device.
By dropping  your current connection when it finds a better connection. It could be a closer WiFi access point or a stronger cell tower which gives a better network signal.
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Download Internet Connection Booster.

Network Signal Booster

This application boosts your Android WiFi network connection by 30-40% just by pressing one button. It is probably the most advanced network signal booster on market. It  runs well-known commands and tweaks to improve 3G, 4G, and WiFi signal.

One thing you should be keep in mind here that this app is device dependent. Therefore, results on different devices may vary.

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Download Network Signal Booster.

WiFi Booster Easy Connect

As the name suggest this app not only boosts WiFi connection but also finds the best available WiFi access points. The app enables you to search for best available open WiFi networks with just one press.

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Download WiFi Booster Easy Connect.

Top 5 free Wi-Fi app for android to improve your Wifi Connection

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Top 5 free Wi-Fi app for android to improve your Wifi Connection
For a smartphone owner, there’s nothing more frustrating than having run out your 3G or GPRS network, only leaving you with a hard time of making calls or sending text messages.  So here I have gathered a list of Wi-Fi apps for android, which allow you to find public Wi-Fi networks, turn your phone into a wifi hotspot and a bit more.

WiFi Manager1. WiFi Manager

This app allows you find, connect, and manage WiFi networks. It can also improve connection quality with a graphical channel radar. Of course the app supports discover open networks around you. Personally, the app it’s my favorite.

The app also includes home screen widgets: one displays detailed connection info, another lets you switch among your favorite networks with a single tap, and yet another toggles WiFi Access Point.

Free Zone WiFi2. Free Zone WiFi

Want cut your 3G some slack? Or save some money by stop use your 3g mobile networking? Then you must download this app.

Free Zone is the easiest way to find and connect to free Wi-Fi networks. As soon as you get into range of a free Wi-Fi network, you're connected automatically to the Internet. Very Easy to use.

WiFinder 3. WiFinder

This app can act as a nice and functional WiFi scanner, and allows you to connect all wifi networks: Open, WEP, WPA, and WPA2. Simple but useful.
Features:
List of network contains channel, graphic level, encryption.
Save/remove networks supported - Forget option.
Auto Scan function.

WiFi Booster Easy Connect4. WiFi Booster Easy Connect
You can connect to the best available WiFi access points in 2 taps with this amazing app! Having been to a place, like a mall or coffee place wondering if there are any open WiFi around you and not wanna go through all the menus just to check it out? Let this app do it for you!

Features:
One of the easiest most convenient WiFi Apps you'll find
Includes a wifi network speed booster
Includes 1 press search for best remembered wifi networks
Includes 1 press search for best open wifi networks
Very lightweight WiFi Connectivity Manager with Easy Connect and booster

WiFi Overview 3605. WiFi Overview 360
Finding the best and fastest Wi-Fi connection available is an easy task if you use WiFi Overview 360. You can use this app to manage and optimize your WiFi connections through its channel checker and channel radar. It will show you a detailed description of the wireless networks available, including the name, signal strength, channel number, and encryption ,open or not.

To optimize your connection, you can use the app to find a channel or frequency range where there are fewer or no wireless networks using it other than your network. To help you evaluate the wireless networks around you, the app gives you a graphical representation of all the wireless networks within its operating range. From there, the app helps you determine the best channel of choice. So if you want to optimize your network connection, try WiFi Overview 360 for free.

Just try these apps that have showed you in this article if you are on the way to find some app to boost your Wi-Fi connection.

5 Best Wi-Fi Apps for Android to Boost Mobile Network and Wi-Fi Signals

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5 Best Wi-Fi Apps for Android to Boost Mobile Network and Wi-Fi Signals
For smartphone owners, actually there is nothing more frustrating than having a poor network signal or Wi-Fi connection, which leaves you with a slow internet connection or a hard time to make calls and send text messages. No matter how powerful your device is, I bet you will not enjoy it much without a decent internet connection or a strong network signal to work with. To avoid you lost in a bad situation, here I have put together 5 best free Android Wi-Fi apps to boost your mobile network and Wi-Fi signals, find public Wi-Fi networks, turn your phone into a Wi-Fi hotspot and more.

1. Wi-Fi Analyzer

This is the most powerful Wi-Fi app for Android. Whether you are using home Wi-Fi or you are always using free public Wi-Fi access points, Wi-Fi Analyzer could help you boost your Wi-Fi connection. When setting up a Wi-Fi connection at home, you can use this app to evaluate the best channel to use so as to avoid overlapping with other Wi-Fi connections and essentially giving you better signal strength.

It also works great if you are in a public area where there are lots of Wi-Fi connections. You can use it to evaluate which wireless networks are the best to connect to. Quite easy to use Android Wi-Fi app. Recommended.

2. Wi-Fi Manager

Managing your Wi-Fi connections will be a piece of cake if you use Wi-Fi Manager. It lets you find, connect and manage Wi-Fi networks freely. Taking it into use, you can easily find open networks around you. If you have more than a handful of networks available, managing them would be quite easy via this app.

The app includes two home screen widgets: one displaying detailed connection info, another letting you switch among favorite networks with a single tap. It also includes graphical channel which helps improve the connection quality, giving your connection speed a boost every time you use the app. It is really a useful app to use and becomes my favorite.

3. OpenSignalMaps

Have you tried walking all around your house just to get a better signal for you phone? I bet you have done that at least once. It is a little hard to guess where you can get the best signal. Some even climb to the roof of their houses just to get a better signal, but you don’t have to do that when you use OpenSignalMaps. This app will literally show you where you can get a strong signal for your device.

When you use the app, it shows you the direction of the signal through an arrow, a map and even a radar where the location of cellular towers are shown. This way, you don’t have to guess and walk around to find a signal; instead you can follow the locations of the cellular towers where a strong network signal is surely available. Aside from helping you out with your network signal, it also shows where you are getting your Wi-Fi connection, helping you find free network connections wherever you are.

4.Wi-Fi Finder

If you are on the lookout for a nice and functional Wi-Fi scanner, you can consider using this app on my queue of Android Wi-Fi apps. It allows you to connect all Wi-Fi networks: Open, WEP, WPA and WPA2. Simple yet useful app.

Features:

List of network contains channel, graphic level, encryption. 
Save/remove networks supported - Forget option. 
Auto Scan function.

5. Free Zone - Free WiFi Scanner

Want to save money and cut your 3G fee? If so, this app is your must have. With free Zone Wi-Fi, you can save up on your 3G data package as this app keeps you posted about all available free networks. Unlike a number of other Android Wi-Fi apps which just display paid hotspots or those which refuse to work, this software lets you know about over 1,500,000 hotspots that are absolutely free. Whether you launch it or not, it continues to run in the background and search for available networks. As soon as you are in the vicinity of an open hotspot, your mobile will connect automatically to the Internet.

So, which Android Wi-Fi finder you are using now? Also in my list? If no, just share it with us in the comments!

5 Best Wi-Fi Apps for Android to Boost Mobile Network and Wi-Fi Signals

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1. Wi-Fi Analyzer

2. Wi-Fi Manager

3. OpenSignalMaps

4.Wi-Fi Finder

Features:

List of network contains channel, graphic level, encryption. 
Save/remove networks supported - Forget option. 
Auto Scan function.

5. Free Zone - Free WiFi Scanner

So, which Android Wi-Fi finder you are using now? Also in my list? If no, just share it with us in the comments!

Wi-fi Mythbuster: Do NOT hide your SSID

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Wi-fi users are often advised to disable or hide the SSID (Service Set Identifier, or simply, the network name) of their routers as a security measure. This tip appears in numerous web pages, books, and magazines. It even shows up on the websites of wireless product manufacturers.

The idea behind disabling SSID is to make your wireless router “invisible” to hackers and other malicious users. Unfortunately, merely disabling SSID is not effective as a security measure, and any active wi-fi router can be revealed quite easily. Free tools like Netstumbler (www.netstumbler.com) will display all active wi-fi routers, regardless of whether their SSID is hidden. Worse, disabling SSID can actually degrade network performance.

The “hide SSID” myth was actually been debunked for years. No less than Robert Moskowitz, senior technical director at ICSA Labs warned against it as far back as Dec 2003, in a paper titled “Debunking the Myth of SSID Hiding” (PDF warning).

“Efforts to hide the SSID are at best half-measures which lead to a false sense of security and to a degradation of wireless network performance.” Moskowitz wrote.

Microsoft also advices against disabling SSIDs, as evidenced by these two pages from its TechNet website — “Non-broadcast Wireless Networks with Microsoft Windows,” and “Non-Broadcast Wireless SSIDs: Why hidden wireless networks are a bad idea.” So, you should merely change your router’s SSID, and not disable it.

For more robust security wi-fi measures, use WPA encryption, set a strong password, and turn on MAC address filtering.

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Wi-Fi has evolved over the years, and so have the techniques for securing your wireless network. An Internet search could unearth information that’s outdated and no longer secure or relevant, or that’s simply a myth.

We’ll separate the signal from the noise and show you the most current and effective means of securing your Wi-Fi network.
Myth No. 1: Don’t broadcast your SSID

Every wireless router (or wireless access point) has a network name assigned to it. The technical term is a Service Set Identifier (SSID). By default, a router will broadcast its SSID in beacons, so all users within its range can see the network on their PC or other device.
An SSID that isn't broadcast will still show up as
an 'Other Network' in Windows 7.

Preventing your router from broadcasting this information, and thereby rendering it somewhat invisible to people you don’t want on your network, might sound like a good idea. But some devices—including PCs running Windows 7 or later—will still see every network that exists, even if it can’t identify each one by name, and unmasking a hidden SSID is a relatively trivial task. In fact, attempting to hide an SSID in this way might pique the interest of nearby Wi-Fi hackers, by suggesting to them that your network may contain sensitive data.

You can prevent your router from including its SSID in its beacon, but you can’t stop it from including that information in its data packets, its association/reassociation requests, and its probe requests/responses. A wireless network analyzer like Kismet or CommView for WiFi, can snatch an SSID out of the airwaves in no time.
This wireless network analyzer showed the hidden SSID of 'cottage111' after I connected a device to the network. The analyzer captured the SSID from the association packets that the device exchanged with the router. (Click to enlarge.)

Disabling SSID broadcasting will hide your network name from the average Joe, but it’s no roadblock for anyone intent on hacking into your network, be they an experienced blackhat or a neighborhood kid just goofing around.
Myth No. 2: Enable MAC address filtering

A unique Media Access Control (MAC) address identifies every device on your network. A MAC address is an alphanumeric string separated by colons, like this: 00:02:D1:1A:2D:12. Networked devices use this address as identification when they send and receive data over the network. A tech myth asserts that you can safeguard your network and prevent unwanted devices from joining it by configuring your router to allow only devices that have specific MAC addresses.

Setting up such configuration instructions is an easy, though tedious, process: You determine the MAC address of every device you want to allow on your network, and then you fill out a table in the router’s user interface. No device with a MAC address not on that table will be able to join your network, even if it knows your wireless network password.

But you needn’t bother with that operation. A hacker using a wireless network analyzer will be able to see the MAC addresses of every computer you’ve allowed on your network, and can change his or her computer’s MAC address to match one that’s in that table you painstakingly created. The only thing you’ll have accomplished by following this procedure is to waste some time—unless you think that having a complete list of the MAC addresses of your network clients would be useful for some other purpose.
A wireless network analyzer scans the airwaves and shows the MAC addresses of the wireless routers and access points on your network, as well as all the computers and other devices connected to them. (Click to enlarge.)

MAC-address filtering might help you block the average Joe from connecting to your router from an unauthorized computer or other device, but it won’t stop a determined hacker. It will render your network more difficult for legitimate users to work with, however, because you’ll have to configure your router every time you add a new device to it or provide a guest with temporary access.
Myth No. 3: Limit your router’s IP address pool

Every device on your network must also be identified by a unique Internet Protocol (IP) address. A router-assigned IP address will contain a string of digits like this: 192.168.1.10. Unlike a MAC address, which the device sends to the router, your router will use its  Dynamic Host Control Protocol (DHCP) server to assign and send a unique IP address to each device joining the network. According to one persistent tech myth, you can control the number of devices that can join your network by limiting the pool of IP addresses your router can draw—a range from 192.168.1.1 to 192.168.1.10, for instance. That’s baloney, for the same reason that the next claim is.
Myth No. 4: Disable your router’s DHCP server

The flawed logic behind this myth claims that you can secure your network by disabling your router’s DHCP server and manually assigning IP address to each device. Supposedly, any device that doesn’t have one of the IP addresses you assigned won’t be able to join your network. In this scenario, you would create a table consisting of IP addresses and the devices they’re assigned to, as you would with a MAC addresses. You’d also need to configure each device manually to use its specified IP address.
Disabling your router's DHCP server and manually limiting the number of IP addresses it can assign are not effective security procedures. (Click to enlarge.)

The weakness that negates these procedures is that if a hacker has already penetrated your network, a quick IP scan can determine the IP addresses your network is using. The hacker can then manually assign a compatible address to a device in order to gain full access to your network. As with MAC address filtering, the main effect of limiting IP addresses (or assigning them manually) is to complicate the process of connecting new devices that you approve of to your network.
This scanning app reveals all of the IP addresses in use on a wireless network. (Click to enlarge.)
Myth No. 5: Small networks are hard to penetrate

This myth suggests that reducing your wireless router’s transmission power will make it harder for someone outside your home or place of business to sneak onto your network because they won’t be able to detect it. This is the dumbest security idea of them all. Anyone intent on cracking your wireless network will use a large antenna to pick up your router’s signals. Reducing the router’s transmission power will only reduce its range and effectiveness for legitimate users.
No myth: Encryption is the best network security

Now that we’ve dispensed with five Wi-Fi security myths, let’s discuss the best way to secure your wireless network: encryption. Encrypting—essentially scrambling—the data traveling over your network is powerful way to prevent eavesdroppers from accessing data in a meaningful form. Though they might succeed in intercepting and capturing a copy of the data transmission, they won’t be able to read the information, capture your login passwords, or hijack your accounts unless they have the encryption key.

Several types of encryption have emerged over the years. Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) provided the best security in the early days of Wi-Fi. But today WEP encryption can be cracked in a matter of minutes. If that’s the only security your router provides, or if some of your networked devices are so old that they can work only with WEP, it’s long past time for you to recycle them and upgrade to a newer standard.

Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) came next, but that security protocol had security problems, too, and has been superseded by WPA2. WPA2 has been around for nearly 10 years. If your equipment is old enough to be limited to WPA security, you should consider an upgrade.
WPA SecurityWPA2, with an AES-encrypted preshared key, is an effective security protocol for home networks. (Click to enlarge.)

Both WPA and WPA2 have two different modes: Personal (aka PSK, an acronym for Pre-Shared Key) and Enterprise (aka RADIUS, an acronym for Remote Authentication Dial In User Server). WPA Personal is designed for home use and is easy to set up. You simply establish a password on your router and then enter that password on each computer and other device that you want to connect to your Wi-Fi network. As long as you use a strong password—I recommend using 13 or more mixed-case characters and symbols—you should be fine. Don’t use words found in the dictionary, proper nouns, personal names, the names of your pets, or anything like that. A strong password might look like this: h&5U2v$(q7F4*.

Your router might include a push-button security feature called Wi-Fi Protected Setup (WPS). WPS enables you to join a device to your WPA2-secured wireless network by pushing a button on the router and a button on the client (if the client also supports WPS). A flaw in WPS leaves it vulnerable to brute-force attacks, however. If you’re particularly security-conscious, you might consider turning off WPS in your router.

Enterprise-mode WPA2 is designed for networks run by businesses and organizations. It provides a higher level of security than WPA, but it requires a RADIUS server or a hosted RADIUS service.

Now that you understand the best way to secure your network, spend a few minutes making sure that your router is configured properly.