Very cool finding! Made me want to explore what other tools my mac has pre-installed in /usr/bin
The networkQuality tool on macOS
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Re: The networkQuality tool on macOS
#12Earlier quoted context omitted.
Did anyone claim it to be equivalent? I said it was more useful. Just a tip.
How is showing your link speed more useful than showing your actual speed? The link speed does not show anything useful, besides that you might be connected to a router from the 90s.
That menu offers more that you know, apparently. But no one is forcing you to use it. You are welcome to use either :)
Re: The networkQuality tool on macOS
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Re: The networkQuality tool on macOS
#14That is neat. But an undocumented tool is hardly a secret... [1] [1]: https://www.macobserver.com/tips/macos-monterey-includes-net...
You fool, it's a secret because you've now been admitted into the elect club of people who know something that the common herd are unaware of. You have now been elevated because you're special, you can see the world properly now. You are special.
It's not a lazy, borderline-insulting clickbait headline at all.
Re: The networkQuality tool on macOS
#15Nice that it gives "responsiveness under working conditions" and defines latency as "idle latency". So this tool makes faults like buffer bloat clear to the user rather than just giving the max bandwidth like most tools.
Re: The networkQuality tool on macOS
#16From the article, a set of reference servers, one in Swift, one in Go: https://github.com/network-quality/server
Looks like the Go implementation has been pulled out to its own repo and has been recently maintained: https://github.com/network-quality/goserver
Also of note: looks like Apple has proposed a new IETF RFC for responsiveness and the "Round-trips Per Minute" (RPM) metric: https://github.com/network-quality/draft-ietf-ippm-responsiv...
Re: The networkQuality tool on macOS
#17Holding Alt and Clicking the Wi-Fi-symbol is more useful.
networkQuality measures performance data across the Internet.
Alt/option + WiFi symbol shows information about your local WiFi connection.
Re: The networkQuality tool on macOS
#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
How is showing your link speed more useful than showing your actual speed? The link speed does not show anything useful, besides that you might be connected to a router from the 90s.
That menu offers more that you know, apparently. But no one is forcing you to use it. You are welcome to use either :)
Instead of repeatedly claiming it is more useful, you might want to go into detail about what it offers and how it is useful. I don't have a Mac around, but according to the other commenters it doesn't seem to display much more than the link speed, which doesn't sound too useful to me either.
Re: The networkQuality tool on macOS
#19Very cool finding! Made me want to explore what other tools my mac has pre-installed in /usr/bin
Personally I found it interesting that:
* TFTP server [1]
* PF Firewall [2]
* pbcopy & pbpaste [3]
are built-in in MacOS.
Here[4] is list of MacOS command line man pages, some interesting tools can be found there.
[1] https://rick.cogley.info/post/run-a-tftp-server-on-mac-osx/
[2] https://iyanmv.medium.com/setting-up-correctly-packet-filter...
[3] https://osxdaily.com/2007/03/05/manipulating-the-clipboard-f...
Re: The networkQuality tool on macOS
#20Very cool finding! Made me want to explore what other tools my mac has pre-installed in /usr/bin
Personally I found it interesting that: * TFTP server [1] * PF Firewall [2] * pbcopy & pbpaste [3] are built-in in MacOS. Here[4] is list of MacOS command line man pages, some interesting tools can be found there. [1] https://rick.cogley.info/post/run-a-tftp-server-on-mac-osx/ [2] https://iyanmv.medium.com/setting-up-correctly-packet-filter... [3] https://osxdaily.com/2007/03/05/manipulating-the-clipboard-f... [4] ht…
Pbcopy/pbpaste are huge productivity boosters for me