Chris Thomas was a reporter at Android Police from 2022 until 2025. The new Orb app from the founders of Speedtest and Down Detector offers comprehensive analysis of internet connection health beyond ...

I found far more network activity on my PC than I expected. Of the three apps I tested, only one let me do something about it.

We are now so accustomed to everything we use requiring some kind of internet access that it's easy to forget about good, old offline functionality. Yet even in our hyper-connected age of social media ...