Portolan network tools 1.16
Free Version
Publisher Description
Portolan is a a crowdsourcing-based system that uses smartphones as mobile measuring elements. Portolan aims at discovering the topology and the structure of the Internet and building signal coverage maps, with the contribution of volunteers.
In order to incentivize users to contribute to the Portolan project, the app offers to the users several diagnostic network tools:
- Ping
- Traceroute (with Multipath Detection Algorithm)
- AS (Autonomous System) path
- signal measurement
- maximum available throughput of your connection
- it verifies if your Internet Service Provider limits BitTorrent traffic.
These tools are totally under user's control. Data collected by these tools is available to the user and is stored in
our servers, in a completely anonymous way.
This app sometimes runs background traceroute measurements and signal strength measurements. When your smartphone is not connected to a WiFi network the Internet mapping activity generates an average traffic rate never higher than 2 MB/day. The impact of this activity on the battery consumption is negligible. Signal coverage measurements are completely costless in terms of energy or bandwidth, as the Portolan app passively collects signal strength samples only when other apps use the GPS. The application stops its background activity when the battery level decreases under 20%. The app does not send any personal data to our servers, and sends only the measurements results. Thus, it is not possible for us to connect measurements to the device that performed them. Finally, the user can monitor the amount of resources used by our application whenever he/she wants.
About Portolan network tools
Portolan network tools is a free app for Android published in the System Maintenance list of apps, part of System Utilities.
The company that develops Portolan network tools is Portolan Project. The latest version released by its developer is 1.16. This app was rated by 1 users of our site and has an average rating of 5.0.
To install Portolan network tools on your Android device, just click the green Continue To App button above to start the installation process. The app is listed on our website since 2016-04-01 and was downloaded 6 times. We have already checked if the download link is safe, however for your own protection we recommend that you scan the downloaded app with your antivirus. Your antivirus may detect the Portolan network tools as malware as malware if the download link to it.unipi.iet.portolan.traceroute is broken.
How to install Portolan network tools on your Android device:
- Click on the Continue To App button on our website. This will redirect you to Google Play.
- Once the Portolan network tools is shown in the Google Play listing of your Android device, you can start its download and installation. Tap on the Install button located below the search bar and to the right of the app icon.
- A pop-up window with the permissions required by Portolan network tools will be shown. Click on Accept to continue the process.
- Portolan network tools will be downloaded onto your device, displaying a progress. Once the download completes, the installation will start and you'll get a notification after the installation is finished.
