Show HN: Lag – Know Before You Go
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Re: Show HN: Lag – Know Before You Go
#2See also: https://www.hotelwifitest.com/
Although from personal experience, data on Hotel Wifi Test is often not reliable, at least for Dubai
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#3That's a snazzy looking app, but why iOS only, and why iOS 14 only?
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#4See also: https://www.hotelwifitest.com/ Although from personal experience, data on Hotel Wifi Test is often not reliable, at least for Dubai
Implementing this idea as a web app instead of an iOS exclusive seems like the right move.
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#5What an excellent pitch! It's right there at the top, and it says exactly what the app does.
This is a refreshingly straightforward design.
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#6WiFi speeds fluctuate heavily, e.g. workdays vs weekdays, lunch hours vs mornings vs nights, etc.
So as good looking as this app is, the real challenge is with the accuracy of its data and keeping it from getting stale. Not sure if the OP realizes this, but it's a 24/7 grind that also requires a sizable userbase.
It's not a bad idea in its core, but this belongs in the OS itself and it should also be On by default to manage to collect enough data to be useful and to keep it current. I doubt that an opt-in model, especially in a form of an installable app, would work well enough to produce any reasonable coverage.
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#7I heard of a similar idea in an Acquired episode: https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/special-acquired-x-my-first...
Wondering if this is somehow related, or you came up with the same idea independently
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#8Seems like a cool idea, but when you are testing download/upload where are you testing to? When I visit Google’s speedtest it shows me drastically slower speeds than if I go to fast.com or speed.cloudflare.com. Speeds to AWS cloudfront, fastly, cloudflare, google will always be different especially in countries /areas without PoPs
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#9I heard of a similar idea in an Acquired episode: https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/special-acquired-x-my-first... Wondering if this is somehow related, or you came up with the same idea independently
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#10I heard of a similar idea in an Acquired episode: https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/special-acquired-x-my-first... Wondering if this is somehow related, or you came up with the same idea independently
This is actually what I was listening to on Friday morning that prompted me to build this.