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Global internet and network connection benchmarking firm Ookla, which operates the popular Speedtest.net broadband connection testing website and app, has announced that their similarly popular internet outage monitoring service – Downdetector – is to start making a new ‘Pro’ plan available (the existing service is free). But it’ll cost you.
At present the Downdetector service is fairly basic in that you can use it to report outages of popular internet services (inc. UK broadband and mobile providers) and see the reports that others have made. On top of that you can also use your Speedtest.net account to select five favourites (e.g. your broadband ISP) to monitor, which will send you a notification if any significant problems are detected, based on wider user feedback.
The new Downdetector Pro plan, which is first going live in Australia, goes a bit further by allowing you to track up to ten favourites (via both the app and website), while also adding Proactive Mobile Alerts (receive up to 10 push notifications per day – one per favourite per day) through the app. The plan also synchronises this across different platforms and removes adverts.