Ookla Founder Launches “Orb,” a Smarter Internet Quality Tracker
"Orb runs on all of your devices to collect minute-by-minute data on internet speed, responsiveness, and reliability. It presents this information in detailed charts that provide deep insight into your long-term home internet performance, though it also gives you a handy "Orb score,” which is just a glanceable figure that rates your internet performance on a scale from 0 to 100. If your score falls below 80, Orb will tap into an LLM and make suggestions for how to improve your connection.”
This does look pretty useful as for proper quality of service you really need to test a few parameters over time, and not just rely on a periodic Speedtest.
It installs on various mobile and desktop platforms (well not on Manjaro for me, although it does install on Arch, so I suppose I can make a plan). But also interestingly it has a server side that can install in docker container (which I tried) as well as in Home Assistant. The server side apps seem to run 24/7 and your desktop and mobile apps can connect to them. You can create a free account so that the stats remain linked. So my the app on my phone will show its own Orb stats, but also sees the Orb stats from the Docker container.
I probably need to try the Home Assistant installation to see if that has a dashboard widget (as that would be really useful). Nope, no Android widget I see, and that was a pretty obvious one I was expecting to find!
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Ookla Founder Launches "Orb," a Smarter Internet Quality Tracker
Yes, I'm pondering my Orb.
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