Fine, flaky, or down
You can see at a glance whether the internet is fine, flaky, or down. The buddy and the ring change together, so a look across the desk is enough.
Desk monitor
A creature that keeps the Wi-Fi honest.
Know the moment your internet drops, and keep a record of every outage to show your provider. Nodeling sits on the desk and times your internet connection every second. The buddy on the round screen plays while the connection is steady, and a day of one-second samples plus a week of minutes stay on the device.
£34.99
Get your NodelingNodeling is £34.99. A stand, a charger, or the desk bundle can be added before checkout.
Why it matters
A latency figure on its own does not tell you much. What you want is to see the internet fail as it happens, and to have the times written down afterwards.
Every outage, start and end
Every outage is logged with a start time and an end time. That record is what you can show your provider when the connection has been dropping.
Wi-Fi, router, or provider
Wi-Fi signal, gateway latency, and internet latency are measured separately, so you can spot whether the problem is your Wi-Fi, your router, or your provider.
The buddy and the ring move together
The axolotl plays the pose that matches the checks. The ring is green when the internet answers, orange when the connection is uneven, and red when it has failed.
Steady
Both checks answered. The happy loop keeps playing.
Uneasy
Some checks failed, or latency is high. The buddy looks worried.
Down
Both checks failed. An outage stays open until one of them answers, and the buddy sinks.
The same hour, in the cloud
This is a sample of the portal, not a live feed. Latency is shown in milliseconds, and loss is the percent of checks that failed in that minute. The outage in the sample is both TCP targets down, and it is stamped at the moment the connection returned.
TCP latency
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DNS latency
Gateway latency
Wi-Fi signal
Loss
Outages
Playful on the glass. Precise underneath.
Three buddies live on the screen. Behind the animation, Nodeling times your internet connection and writes down every outage.
Three buddies, one watch
The axolotl, the floppy, and the slime take turns on the glass. They blink, hop, and squish, and you pick who sits on the desk. The green ring around them is the connection, shown as a steady 18 ms in the picture above.
24hours
One-second data
A full day of one-second samples stays on the device, so you can look back at the moment the connection changed.
7days
One-minute data
A week of one-minute summaries stays on the device. That is the longer view of how the connection has been behaving.
Free cloud portal
You can watch the same monitor from a browser when you are away from the desk. The cloud portal is free, and the history on the device remains either way.
Coming later
An app to set it up. A library that stays free.
This is not in the current release. The phone app will join your Wi-Fi, set the brightness, and choose who is on the glass. A second screen will show the latency charts when you are away from the desk. Every Nodeling in the library stays free.
9:41Nodeling
Axolotl
On the glass · 18 ms · Steady
9:41Charts
This hour
TCP 18 ms · one outage
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£34.99, on the desk
A buddy on the glass, a record of your internet, a day of one-second data, and a week of minutes kept on the device.
Get your NodelingSpecs and what's in the box
Anything still to be confirmed is marked in square brackets.
The device
- Size and weight
- [TBC]
- Screen
- Round touch screen, [size TBC]
- Case
- Black metal
- Power
- [USB-C?], cable included [TBC]
- Connectivity
- 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi [confirm]
In the box
[Nodeling, cable, quick-start card, TBC]
Questions before you buy
Does it need a subscription?
No. The cloud portal is free, and £34.99 is the price of the device.
Does it work without the cloud?
Yes. The history stays on the device, whether or not it is syncing to the portal.
What does it measure?
TCP latency, DNS latency, gateway latency, Wi-Fi signal, packet loss, and outages.
Will it work with my router or provider?
[answer] It joins a home Wi-Fi network and measures the path from the desk. A list of tested routers and providers is not confirmed yet.
Can I get the data out?
API, MQTT, and Home Assistant: [coming soon]. The history is already stored on the device, and the free portal shows the same minutes in a browser.
When will it ship, and what does delivery cost?
[TBC]
What's the returns policy?
[TBC.] If you are buying in the UK, the 14-day cooling-off period still applies. Anything beyond that is not confirmed yet.