More and more establishments are aiming to offer a WiFi service to his clients. At first they were libraries, hotels, coffee shops; Today there are already shopping centers, buses, squares and entire neighborhoods that offer internet. However, these types of networks are not always efficient or secure. We review a series of possibilities to find the best network and use it without risking our private data.
Although the European Union wants to eliminate the roaming , we are still facing a situation in which navigating neighboring countries using the mobile connection can lead to important expenses in the monthly bill. However, a skilled traveler can take advantage of WiFi networks to avoid excessive data consumption and, at the same time, enjoy the essential tools that a mobile or tablet, plus the Internet, gives us the time to get the most out of almost any experience.
Three tools
The first two tools that we present here will help us to choose one efficient network and the third will shield largely the connection to avoid unwanted mishaps. A public network is never completely secure, but we can always minimize risks.
Speed Test Plus
Yes, kindly, the manager or waiter of a local give us your WiFi password Before making a drink (after all it is part of the product), our Speed Test will show us whether or not it is worth it to stay for a drink on the site while we carry out the searches we need, let's talk with the contacts , send an email, upload photos, etc. A good connection it will save us time to perform all these tasks and it is not pleasant to end up desperate by network slowness in what should be a pleasant trance.
Wifi analyzer
We are not always going to be lucky enough that someone allows us to test the quality of their WiFi before ordering a coffee or a beer. What this app gives us is the possibility measure the power of certain networks within a specified range radius.
The problem is that it is an app a bit more cumbersome than the previous one and the interface is not so intuitive. Even so, if we are in an area where there are several cafes or shops with a WiFi zone, Wifi analyzer will send us a graph with the different networks so that we can choose with the certainty that we will have a decent connection.
TunnelBear VPN
As we mentioned at the beginning, of a public connection we can never expect it to be entirely safe and it is better to distrust those networks that do not even have a password: it is not simply ours Privacy (conversations, etc.) which may end up exposed, but there are also ways to access information about t and other payment systems.
TunnelBear VPN will give us the option to create Virtual Private Networks from a Local Network, and even connect to servers proxy (as if we were in another country) in case we are in areas that have blocked access to certain websites.