An Android smartphone is better than measuring a computer capable of measuring internet connection speed and providing information on bandwidth usage. The Speedtest.net app, is the most famous example, which allows you to know the maximum speed of the internet connection used by the smartphone, useful for checking the quality of the internet at a given point.
To check the speed of the Internet at any time and to have an eye on the use of the connection bandwidth, you can install the Speed Meter application designed to display the speed of the Internet in the status bar and to monitor the use of the width of band every day .
The Internet Speed Meter application has a very simple, inconspicuous interface, where you can see in a table the network bandwidth consumption made by the Android smartphone every day for a month, from the Wifi connection and from the 3G data connection.
The status bar indicates the transfer of data in real time and you can then check if there is network traffic on the screen without having to touch anything.
By expanding the notification bar you can read the current internet speed in Bytes per second and the network consumption in MB exchanged
The app is listed as efficient in battery consumption which should be minimal even if the app remains active all the time.
In the paid version you can unlock some additional additional functions such as the ability to hide the notification.
Another app of different types allows instead to understand how and when the applications active on the phone use the internet.
Network Connections is another useful free tool for Android that allows you to monitor incoming and outgoing traffic to and from your mobile phone .
It tracks all internet connections used by running services and applications and allows you to monitor the IP addresses to which they connect.
Its simple interface offers a historical overview of the data collected and the ability to capture information in real time, showing who is using the internet on the phone.
For each app, it tells how many bytes have been sent and received by each connection, which is useful for discovering suspicious activities or simply applications that continuously transmit data and that should be disabled with consumption-based connections.
By touching an item you can have a detail on the permissions of the applications and you can access the management menu to uninstall or disable it.
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