How can i detect which type of network iam using in ios?

Question

Is it possible to detect which type of network we are using like wifi, DSL, very poor network ?

Actually my app is crashing in Very poor, 100% loss and high latency network .

Is there any way to detect this so I can reduce the load with respect to network condition?

Please help me.

Answer 1

You can use to some extent Apple's Reachability

For example you can ping a particular IP address and derive some metrics from the result

Answer 2

You couldn't detect a quality of your connection. But there is a nice class Reachability which represents few useful methods to detect connection states.

Answer 3

Look at Reachability.m. it'll tell you whether you have any connection, and then tell you what kind of connection you have. It tells every thing about network.

Download Rechability here

Answer 4

you can download the Reachablity class. and add the following to check network type

Reachability* reachability = [Reachability sharedReachability];
[reachability setHostName:@"www.google.com"];    // set your host name here
NetworkStatus remoteHostStatus = [reachability remoteHostStatus];

if(remoteHostStatus == NotReachable) {NSLog(@"no");}
else if (remoteHostStatus == ReachableViaWiFiNetwork) {NSLog(@"wifi"); }
else if (remoteHostStatus == ReachableViaCarrierDataNetwork) {NSLog(@"cell"); }