Does it separate WiFi from internet? Seems most people don’t even understand the difference. You could have strong internet but poor WiFi in a certain spot or for a certain time.
macOS Monterey's new network quality tool is surprisingly good
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Re: macOS Monterey's new network quality tool is surprisingly good
#92We've been having regular videoconferences to discuss this concept tuesdays 9:30 AM PDT over here:
https://starwrt.v.taht.net:8443/group/bufferbloat/
(use any login, no password, chrome is best)
There's also the "rpm" mailing list on lists.bufferbloat.net
Re: macOS Monterey's new network quality tool is surprisingly good
#93Earlier quoted context omitted.
I agree Preview.app is amazing. It's fast, has a lot of features and not bloated at all. However I think recent built-in apps are so bad almost unusable (like Music.app and TV.app), Preview's elegance seems to be a lost art in Apple.
What’s wrong with the AppleTV app? Perf is fine. UI/X is par with HBOMax, Disney+. Definitely better than Prime Video.
I might have different use case than most people that I mainly use it to manage local video files and sync with my phone. The bugs are very similar to the bugs on Music.app where there's a lot of desync between app & local folder, duplicate entries, broken thumbnail, clunky UX etc. The quality difference between that and older macOS built-in softwares is pretty obvious imo (the most obvious drop is Music.app rewrite in Big Sur)
Re: macOS Monterey's new network quality tool is surprisingly good
#94This is a neat little tool. I had no idea that was hiding in there. Anyone have any other little hidden gems on MacOS?
“Network Link Conditioner” essentially does the opposite but it’s a really neat tool: it lets you degrade your connection, so you can test how software reacts to degraded network conditions, and don’t need to install and configure third-party proxies and the like. The biggest drawback is it affects the entire machine, you can’t enable the conditioner on a per-process basis, so it can be a bit rough on the other “norm…
Other normal traffic on the machine going through that conditioner has side effects on your application as well.
Re: macOS Monterey's new network quality tool is surprisingly good
#95Over here we tuned up virgin media fiber to have the least latency under normal working conditions yet seen, using sqm and the sch_cake algorithm. Pretty graphs here:
https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/threads/virgin-media-discu...
I don't know what rpm score that network would get as yet.
Re: macOS Monterey's new network quality tool is surprisingly good
#96Nice! A network tool I've always wanted is one that automates the investigation you have to do manually if you are experienceing "internet issues". I mean, the check list is quite straightforward but still a pretty manual process, stuff like: - Do I have the expected IP? - Is there large packet loss or latency issues hinting at connectivity issues? - Can I ping the local gateway? - Can I ping to outside network? - Is…
It's not "one click", but flent is the goto tool we use to probe networks for a multiplicity of problems. It's available for most OSes, including OSx. See flent.org.
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#97Slightly OT, but I'd like to express my astonishment about a positive article about a new tool making it to the front page. Somehow these days it's always rants about new stuff. Nice and short read.
Aren't you kind of ranting about rants? And am I ranting about you ranting about rants? :)
I'd say rants are a tad longer. :)
Re: macOS Monterey's new network quality tool is surprisingly good
#98I cooked up a little app that has a UI front-end for these statistics. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/network-quality-test/id1596010...
Re: macOS Monterey's new network quality tool is surprisingly good
#99This is a neat little tool. I had no idea that was hiding in there. Anyone have any other little hidden gems on MacOS?
There are tons of excellent pieces of Apple software that come with iOS[EDIT macOS, that is] (or are free to download). Preview's simply amazing and I miss it very much on every other platform, including iOS , but probably doesn't count as a hidden gem. One that took me way too long to discover was the Digital Color Meter. It's a color picker that comes up instantly (much of what's so great about Apple's software is…
The built-in screen zoom is pretty neat. Hold `Ctrl` and use the vertical scroller on whatever pointing device you have to zoom in and out. Real nice when you want to take a (much) closer look at a thing without affecting layout: it zooms your viewport without affecting any of the actual content, unlike, say, increasing font size.
Looks like it’s been updated, I don’t remember the different zoom type options. Maybe I just never discovered them.