2026 UEN Tech Summit

How do you quickly prove it's not the Wi-Fi when the immediate response is to blame the Wi-Fi? I'm going to share some practical, cheap, or free tools to help you dial into the actual problem quickly, and why Speedtest may not be the best metric for testing your network.

Tools like Speedtest.net have become the de facto standard that our end users know to use to test when the network is working. This actually can be detrimental and unhelpful as a metric. New tools like the WLANPI and Orb.net are providing very cost-effective tools for determining how a network is performing without having to purchase expensive overlay networks. Tools that can be installed directly on an end-user device to get real-time performance metrics.