Use these free apps to check on your WiFi signal
You have the most up-to-date device in your hand and you’re having a hard time connecting to the Internet. You fail to make calls or send text messages. Fuming frustration sets in as you realize the competency of your latest gadget is not in question but a weak network signal or Wi-Fi connection is at fault.
No matter how powerful your device is, with a sluggish internet connection, you’re not going to enjoy it much nor get urgent information to and fro especially businesses depending fully on real-time info.
Currently there’s help for you in the many forms of free Android apps available from the Internet. These apps are here to assist you in establishing better Wi-Fi connection or strengthening your network signals. Here’s a top 10 list of apps for checking your Wi-Fi signal.
1. Open Signal Maps
Using OpenSignalMaps will literally show you where you can get the strongest signal for your device. The location of cellular towers and signal direction is shown through an arrow, a map and even using radar, where you can follow to get the strongest signal available. This app also shows where you are getting your Wi-Fi connection and finds you free network connections wherever you are.
2. Network Signal Info
This app comes in handy if you’re very much concerned about your Wi-Fi or network signal strength. It helps you determine the real signal strength (forget about the signal bars on your phone) giving you details of signal strength via 14 signal bars. Using two widgets (one for network signal and one for Wi-Fi connection) you’ll get a better idea on your signal strength and not be fooled by your phone’s signal bar.
3. WiFi Overview 360
Looking for the best and fastest Wi-Fi connection available? Easy, just use WiFi Overview 360 to manage and optimize your Wi-Fi connections through its channel checker and channel radar. It gives you detailed descriptions of available wireless networks including name, signal strength, channel number and encryption. This app uses graphical representation of all accessible wireless networks which helps you evaluate and choose the best channel of your choice.
4. WiFi Analyzer
Home Wi-Fi users or utilizers of free public Wi-Fi access points can use WiFi Analyzer to help boost their signals. Home users and public users can evaluate the best channel to use to avoid overlapping with other Wi-Fi connections and essentially giving them better signal strength. All you have to do is look at the channel graph and choose a channel that has fewer users.
5. Network Signal Speed Booster
Network Signal Speed Booster is one of the best apps that can help boost the network signal of your device. It gives you a better signal, which means better data speed for Internet. It reconnects your data to cellular towers much like connecting you to a fresh network. Easy to use and guaranteed to give your network signal a boost, once this app is launched, it automatically works to give you the signal strength you want.
6. Network Speed Booster
This app essentially boosts your phone’s signal by renewing your phone’s connection to cellular towers, providing you with better network signal reception. This is a simple but effective app and is hyped by some users that this app can give your phone signal even in dead zones (no network signal areas).
7. WiFi Booster Easy Connect
Most Wi-Fi booster apps helps you evaluate and choose your preferred connection. On the other hand, if you don’t want to be involved in the hassle of choosing, you should try WiFi Booster Easy Connect. This app will do it for you and with a Wi-Fi connection; its network speed booster will surely add some speed to your connection. It just takes two taps; one for searching the best remembered Wi-Fi networks, the other to search for the best open Wi-Fi networks.
8. WiFi Connect
WiFi Connect helps you evaluate and choose the best available Wi-Fi connections around with a fun-looking interface, showing Wi-Fi connections as bits of paper taped to a bulletin board. This app helps you sort out the connections by displaying signal strength, channel number, security type, link speed and IP number. It also has a notification feature to keep you informed of your Wi-Fi connection status.
9. WiFi Manager
If you have more than a handful of Wi-Fi networks available for connection, managing them with WiFi Manager would be easy as this app has two widgets dedicated for displaying info on each connection and to switch among several networks available. It has a graphic channel display that helps improve connection quality, giving your connection a boost of speed every time the app is launched. It also has extra features like a new and improved interface and a feature where you can assign descriptions and icons to every individual network.
10. Connection Stabilizer
This app ensures that your connection is stable with its reconnect and booster features for your mobile device. With its Active Reconnect feature, when activated, this feature actively monitors and immediately re-establishes dropped connections. It also has a feature that uses tricks and tweaks to establish internet connectivity even on congested networks.
App That Would Fit You
Depending on your needs, there is an app out there for you. Whether you want to just boost your device’s network signal, your Wi-Fi connection, or both; just try the apps featured above and see if you like it easy or detailed.
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