Pulse: Network Diagnostics

Pulse is a network toolbox for iPhone and iPad, built for the people who get asked why the network is slow. It measures a network and tells you what the numbers mean — and opens a terminal on the machine at the other end. PULSE — CONTINUOUS PATH MONITORING Re-walks the path to a host every few seconds and keeps a window per hop, so a router losing one packet in twenty becomes visible. It tells a hop dropping your traffic from one merely rate-limiting its own replies; most tools paint both red. HEALTH CHECK Eight checks and a plain verdict in about ten seconds — the link, this device's address, the router, the neighbours, DNS, the internet, your public address, any VPN — naming the earliest failure. SERVICES Sixteen everyday services — video calls, files, sign-in and mail, remote desktop — checked against their real endpoints in about fifteen seconds, with a plain verdict. DEVICES…