Evaluating 'Wi-Fi Ruler' Android App

The Wi-Fi Ruler is a free Android app that helps you connect to Wi-Fi networks while on the move. The drive-by feature of the Wi-Fi Ruler app lets you automatically connect to wireless networks while allowing you skip pay wall wireless networks. Although the connection is a bit unsteady initially, this app allows users to set connectivity priorities and helps differentiate between wireless networks.  This app may be helpful to those prone to connecting to a lot of networks on the go.


Once the app is installed and accessed, you come across a list of all the wireless networks available in your proximity. These networks are neatly segregated in three different menu choices that appear on the screen. The three categories are Remembered, Live and Rules. Let’s look at each category separately. The Live view is the default view. This view makes a list of all the wireless networks that are presently available in your area. This app displays correctly the wireless network you are currently using. You can simply tap on the app to enter the password and apply certain pre-configured rules such as café, home, neighbor, driveby, etc. These rules denote the type of connection you have. For instance, for access points you wish to connect to automatically when you are in its proximity, you simply have to mark it as ‘driveby’.

The Remembered menu gives you a list of all the SSID’s (Service Set Identifier) you have connected to, all the network connections you’ve saved and all the connection’s associated with a rule. The Rule menu option gives you information about the purpose and priority level of the rule.

Wi-Fi Ruler helps you:

• Connect automatically to open access Wi-Fi connection points while you are on the move.

• It lets you skip Wi-Fi open access points if they are pay walls.

• For the access points pre-set by you, this app allows automatic connectivity.

• It will instantly check your Wi-Fi connection when connected to access points.

• Set your connection priorities and differentiate between many Wi-Fi access points.

The Wi-Fi Ruler Android app gives you a comprehensive list of all the networks available in your area. This app will display signal strength and the level of encryption for each Wi-Fi network signal. Once you come across any open signal, you can mark it for ‘driveby’ so that you get connected to the network every time you are in its proximity.

Sometimes the connection seems to get disconnected for no apparent reason. But then, when really connected you do get a strong and steady signal. Once you have connected to Wi-Fi network, the WI-Fi Ruler displays the access point or router’s IP address to the Android device.

Although this app doesn’t grant you permission to edit rule names, you certainly can add new rules. You have the freedom to edit comments and change the priority levels and the rule behavior.

You can customize your Wi-Fi Ruler app in many ways. You can set it in a way that the app connects to nearby open access networks automatically, notify you upon connecting, and the number of seconds the app can search for networks in an area.

This app has a paid version too that comes with a variety of customization features. Although this app doesn’t bring in too many benefits, it does a decent job in managing Wi-Fi network connections and connecting you to an open access point in a fairly quick manner.

This is a guest post by Dazzle Rogers of workwelltogether.com, a site that offers savings and current information on comcast service bundles on cable and internet.