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
#2This is a neat little tool. I had no idea that was hiding in there. Anyone have any other little hidden gems on MacOS?
Re: macOS Monterey's new network quality tool is surprisingly good
#3This is a neat little tool. I had no idea that was hiding in there. Anyone have any other little hidden gems on MacOS?
There is also "networksetup", which allows you to do pretty much anything you want with network configuration. Useful if you want to e.g. automate VPN network switching or locations.
Re: macOS Monterey's new network quality tool is surprisingly good
#4Who thought naming a CLI tool with a camel case name was acceptable? Why isn't there a law against that?
Re: macOS Monterey's new network quality tool is surprisingly good
#5Interestingly it uses their own CDN infrastructure by default by checking https://mensura.cdn-apple.com/api/v1/gm/config for which endpoint to use.
Re: macOS Monterey's new network quality tool is surprisingly good
#6This is a neat little tool. I had no idea that was hiding in there. Anyone have any other little hidden gems on MacOS?
There is also "networksetup", which allows you to do pretty much anything you want with network configuration. Useful if you want to e.g. automate VPN network switching or locations.
> Useful if you want to e.g. automate VPN network switching or locations
Can you elaborate on that a bit, please?
Re: macOS Monterey's new network quality tool is surprisingly good
#7This 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 “normal” usage of the machine.
There’s also a version on iOS.
Re: macOS Monterey's new network quality tool is surprisingly good
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
There is also "networksetup", which allows you to do pretty much anything you want with network configuration. Useful if you want to e.g. automate VPN network switching or locations.
> Useful if you want to e.g. automate VPN network switching or locations Can you elaborate on that a bit, please?
If you have a VPN named "MyVPN" you can start it from the command line with: networksetup -connectpppoeservice "MyVPN".
Re: macOS Monterey's new network quality tool is surprisingly good
#9Interestingly it uses their own CDN infrastructure by default by checking https://mensura.cdn-apple.com/api/v1/gm/config for which endpoint to use.
That's also the beauty of Fast.com, that it uses the Netflix content servers as benchmark and not some ISP edge hosted Speedtest server with special priority.
That gives a more realistic expectation of how Netflix, and in this case Apple downloads, will actually perform. And it can't be artificially boosted by the ISP.
That being said, I assume both Netflix and Apple have very special CDNs with ISP co-located content servers in many cases so it is still not a realistic measurement of generic Internet performance (but Speedtest is even worse, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯)
Re: macOS Monterey's new network quality tool is surprisingly good
#10This is a neat little tool. I had no idea that was hiding in there. Anyone have any other little hidden gems on MacOS?
In the file settings ("Get Info") you can set a "stationary pad" flag means whenever the file gets edited, a copy is created, and the original file doesn't change.
When you're taking a screenshot of a portion of the screen you can hold the spacebar to move the rectangle around.