Monitor Your Connection With mConnection
Ever since I started using WiFi over my N95 using the ad-hoc connection over my laptop, I knew I wanted some kind of monitoring to my data usage. I wanted to know the speed of the download as well as the data consumption I was making with my device. I was looking for a very simple solution that would be easily accessible and I couldn’t find any, until I stumbled on mConnection.
Available now for S60 3rd Edition, mConnection from Mobile-Inform is a small utility that does exactly what you need it to do. It tells you, for your active access point, how much data you’ve downloaded, how much you’ve uploaded and also the speed of the download. I really like two things about it. First is that no matter what time you launch it, it picks up the whole data transfers since the moment you last started using that access point. Second, it displays a small white box on the upper right of your screen, on top of any application you’re in, so that you can live monitor the connection. How cool is that? Here are two screenshots. The first shows the mConnection menu which displays your active connection with the following criteria in order: received / sent / transfer speed. The second shows emTube running with the white box on top showing the received data as well as the speed.
mConnection can be extremely useful for those of you who aren’t on unlimited data plans, since it should help you monitor your usage. It can also be useful to determine which websites or which applications are data hungry, as well as keep an eye on your transfer speeds.
Now I have good and bad news for you. Good news first? Well mConnection is a freeware and you can download it here. It’s still in beta and the developer is working on a couple of features to implement later. Bad news? You guessed it, it’s not signed, so you can only use this if you have a certificate. Good thing is that you can always contact the developer on his forum and ask for him to sign the software, or wait for the new version that he says will be open signable.
hey guru, are the comments working on your site here? i tried to comment this article a few days ago and i dont see it. ever since your wedding article i have made comments but they dont show up. anyway, this app is something i want. and its the first time i am directly affected by the symbian signed issue as i dont have a cert for my new n95-4. looks like i will be performing the symbian hack to my phone to try out this app.
I don’t know about the comment issue Roger, we’ll have to look into it soon, because I also received a claim from someone else that their comment didn’t appear.
Concerning signing, you can ask for a certificate from OPDA, i am not promoting illegal chinese forums here, but google them and you’ll find a guide on how to ask for a certificate on their site. I got my N95 after the Symbian Signed state changed, so I didn’t have a certificate for it. I had to go through OPDA, but I got mine and it’s working.
a New Version appeared. Please Visit our web-site http://Mobile-Inform.com to download it.
Guru, can You contact us?
Rita, if only OPDA didn’t take so long in comparison
what do you mean by camparison? do they make same app?
Mr-X i think meant that OPDA take a lot of time to get certificates for those who want one, now that Symbian Signed doesn’t.
if he want to get mConnection signed - he just need to visit our forum and to leave a meassage there.
Mobile-Inform, don’t worry, I have plenty of certificates.
What I was saying is that the OPDA cert requesting malarchy takes longer in comparison to what Roger was suggesting… Hacking his phone.