In an earlier post, I have written about Network Analyser, a freeware Network Monitor (Netmon/Ethereal/Wireshark) utility for Windows Mobile devices by Microsoft. In this article, I will talk about two other programs that will help you to diagnose, troubleshoot network connectivity issues and test internet connection speed on your mobile device.

vxUtil for Windows Mobile

vxUtil: This is one of the foremost network troubleshooting utility available for Windows Mobile devices. It consists of the following utilities: DNS Audit, DNS Lookup, Finger,Get HTML, Info, IP Subnet Calculator, Password Generator, Ping, Ping Sweep, Port Scanner, Quote, Time Service, Trace Route, Wake On LAN and Whois. [download]

Enterprise Mobile IP Utility: This application provides features similiar to vxUtil but includes additional tools such Ipconfig to release and renew Ip address, speed test to check the current bandwidth speed of your device connection to the internet and a logging feature that allows you to save the test results into a text file. [download]