Network Information widget

The Network Information widget turns a corner of your page into a quick "what does the internet see about me" readout. It shows the public IP address your device is using right now, a few details that come with it, a short history of the addresses your account has been seen on, and a speed test you can run whenever you want one.

Adding the Network Information widget

1. Open the page you want to add it to and click Edit in the page header.
2. Click Add Widget.
3. Choose Network Info from the picker, under the Utilities category.
4. Save. There is nothing to configure — everything the widget shows is worked out when the page is viewed.

Your IP address

The address at the top of the widget is the one the internet sees for the device looking at the page, and it appears on its own as soon as the page loads — no clicking, no setup. Under it, the widget lists whatever else can be worked out from that address: the IP version (IPv4 or IPv6), the approximate location it reports (city and country), and the time zone of that location.

Those extra details are best-effort. They come from the network information that reaches Linkamatic along with the request, and that information is not always complete — if the location or time zone cannot be determined, the widget simply leaves that line out and carries on showing the address. The name of your internet provider is not part of what the widget shows.

If you use a VPN or a proxy

When you are connected through a VPN or a proxy, the widget shows the address of the VPN exit point rather than the one your provider gave you — and the location and time zone follow it. That is correct and expected: it is exactly what any website you visit sees. It also makes the widget a handy way to confirm at a glance that your VPN really is on, and which country it is presenting you from.

Recent IP addresses

Home internet providers hand out addresses on a lease and swap them from time to time, usually without telling you. The Recent IP addresses section is there to catch that: alongside your current address, it lists up to two earlier ones, each with the date it was first seen, newest first. If the address you rely on for a remote-access rule or an allowlist has changed, this is where you find out when.

Addresses are noted when you sign in to Linkamatic, and only when the address is different from the last one recorded — so the list is a record of changes, not a log of visits. Until your address changes for the first time, the section says there are no prior addresses yet.

Running a speed test

Click Run speed test and the widget measures your connection using Cloudflare’s speed test, showing progress while it works and then reporting download speed, upload speed, and latency. The test never starts on its own — nothing is measured, and no data is used, until someone presses the button. Press it again at any time to re-run and replace the figures. Results are for reading, not keeping: they disappear when you leave the page.

Because that cost is easy to miss, the first test in a given browser asks for confirmation first and explains it; choose Cancel and nothing is transferred. After you have confirmed once, later tests in that browser start straight away. The same note appears in the widget’s settings drawer, so whoever puts the widget on a page sees it too.

If a test cannot finish — a dropped connection, or the service being unreachable — the widget says so plainly and the button becomes Run again. Nothing else in the widget or on the page is affected.

Settings

Open the widget settings from the gear on its toolbar in edit mode. There is only one thing to set.

For the basics of adding, moving, resizing, and retitling any widget, see Working with widgets. For the local time and weather that go with a location, see the Clock widget and the Weather widget.