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Guides

Step-by-step walkthroughs for common network questions, using the tools in Linkalyst. Each one says what a result shows and what it does not.

Wi-Fi is connected, but web pages are slow
Work out whether slow pages come from the Wi-Fi link, the internet connection, DNS or one website, using Latency Test, DNS Lookup, Website Check and more.
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Compare DNS server results on iPhone
Send one query to system DNS and up to four resolvers at once, then read response times, differing answers and failures without reading too much into them.
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Test peer
Run the small test peer on a computer on your network, so the Throughput Test and the Latency Test over UDP have something to measure against.
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