An excellent utility and well worth the price if you’re trying to diagnose a case of internetus delinquens. Easy to use, quick, with good quantitative results. You’ll need free services to check the speed of your internet connection, but this app will tell you how well your devices communicate with the gatekeeper to all that is good in the world, your home or office wifi network. Do you have two devices you can connect to your network? Like a computer and a smartphone? Of course you do! So with this app and the companion app for your phone, soon you’ll know whether the fault, Dear Brutus, lies in your ISP or in your home. AND – you could run a test of your wifi network’s speed and see whether you need to buy a new router…or maybe just relocate your current one.
You can also test via a local NAS / filesystem.īig video files taking forever to download from your networked storage? Not keeping up with the famous-for-being-famous because the gossip websites won’t load before the news is olds? If so, and you’re wondering where the fault lies, you COULD check your internet speed.
(iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, Apple TV are supported) The Mac will act as a server, the other device as the client for visualizing the results. To make a proper measurement, you need to have either two Macs in your network, or one Mac and an iOS/tvOS device. Find test servers automatically via Bonjour services Get actual real-world network throughput and average speed Once you’re there, you can see the current connection speed by looking at the Link Speed, which will show the actual data rate that. Accurate performance measuring of your network using client-server technology You can use the Network Utility by using Cmd+Space to pull up the Spotlight search box and typing it in, or you can navigate through your Applications -> Utilities folder to find it. You will see internet speed test running inside your terminal & returning the result within a minute. Find the best spot for watching streaming movies in your home If you have macOS Monterey or later in your system, here is how you can test Internet speed:. Optimize the placement of your wifi router, try different locations until you get the best network performance Verify your network components (swiches, router) to find bottlenecks in your wired network Make sure to also download the free iOS Client App for even simpler speed tests between Mac and your iPhone/iPad or the Apple TV. Optimize your wifi network by moving or placing your wifi router until you reach the best results. A graph helps you see changes in realtime. Use Network Speed Tester to measure the actual transfer speed of your local wifi or wired network.