


Not bad for a 1986 Flathead High School graduate who honed his computer skills on a simple Apple 2E when he was 13 and spent summers working at American Timber Co. Last week Ookla announced a completely revamped version of its immensely popular site. To date the company has tallied more than 2.1 billion speed tests. More than three million times a day, Internet users tap into Ookla's free and licensed diagnostic tools such as. Ookla services almost every Internet service provider in the world, and its solutions have been translated into 32 languages for use by thousands of small businesses and Fortune 500 companies. That's his job as chief executive officer of Ookla, a startup venture he co-founded in 2006 that's now considered the global leader in broadband speed testing and web-based network diagnostic applications. (AP) - In the basement of one of Kalispell's historic eastside homes, Mike Apgar makes sure computer users the world over are getting what they pay for from their Internet service providers.
