Wycombe Abbey International School Bangkok

KEYSTONE App

Yardstick

A speed test you run from the room that feels slow.
It tells you whether the wifi or the internet is at fault.

WAS Bangkok · Internal system

What it does
About this app

Yardstick

What is this app for?
Measuring how fast the school network is in one particular room, so a complaint about slow wifi can be answered with a number instead of a guess.
Who can access it?
Anyone at school, staff and pupils alike. There is nothing to ask for and nothing to sign in to.
  • Open access

What it does

Turns “the internet is slow in here” into something you can act on.

Run it where the problem is

Stand in the room that feels slow, on the device that feels slow, and press one button. That is the measurement that matters — not one taken from the IT office on a wired desktop.

Two tests, not one

An ordinary speed test crosses the wifi, the access point, the switch, the firewall and the ISP, and gives you one number covering all of them. Yardstick also tests against a server inside the building, and the difference between the two is the answer: fast inside but slow outside means the school’s internet connection; slow inside means the wifi in this room.

It never records who you are

No name, no email, no login, nothing that follows your device from one test to the next. A result says “Gym East, 14:05, 3 Mbit down”, which finds a bad access point just as well and carries none of the risk.

It gets better the more it is used

Every test makes the next answer sharper. Once enough rooms have been measured, a slow one stands out against the rest of the school on its own — and that comparison alone is often enough to tell a bad room from a bad day.