{"id":34182,"date":"2021-11-16T15:51:59","date_gmt":"2021-11-16T20:51:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=34182"},"modified":"2023-05-15T15:56:03","modified_gmt":"2023-05-15T19:56:03","slug":"monterey-network-quality-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/16\/monterey-network-quality-tool\/","title":{"rendered":"Monterey Network Quality Tool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/danpetrov.xyz\/macos\/2021\/11\/14\/analysing-network-quality-macos.html\">Dan Petrov<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=29225308\">Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/danpetrov.xyz\/macos\/2021\/11\/14\/analysing-network-quality-macos.html\"><p>Apple has quietly added a new tool in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apple.com\/macos\/monterey\/\">macOS Monterey<\/a> for measuring your device&rsquo;s Internet connectivity quality. You can simply call the executable <code>networkQuality<\/code>, which executes the following tests:<\/p><ul><li>Upload\/download <strong>capacity<\/strong> (your Tx\/Rx bandwidth essentially)<\/li><li>Upload\/download <strong>flows<\/strong>, this seems to be the number of test packets used for the responsiveness tests<\/li><li>Upload\/download <strong>responsiveness<\/strong> measured in <strong>Roundtrips Per Minute (RPM)<\/strong>, which according to Apple, is the number of sequential round-trips, or transactions, a network can do in one minute under normal working conditions<\/li><\/ul><p>The capacity is roughly the same metric you could expect from tools like <a href=\"https:\/\/fast.com\">Fast.com<\/a> from Netflix, or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.speedtest.net\">OOkla&rsquo;s Speedtest<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/29\/whats-new-on-the-monterey-command-line\/\">What&rsquo;s New on the Monterey Command Line<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p id=\"monterey-network-quality-tool-update-2021-11-24\">Update (2021-11-24): <a href=\"https:\/\/sixcolors.com\/post\/2021\/11\/display-network-quality-in-your-menu-bar\/\">Jason Snell<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/sixcolors.com\/post\/2021\/11\/display-network-quality-in-your-menu-bar\/\">\n<p>I&rsquo;ve written a small SwiftBar plugin (requires python3) to run <code>networkQuality<\/code> and report the results in the menu bar every 20 minutes. You can <a href=\"https:\/\/sixcolors.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/networkquality.zip\">download it here<\/a> if you&rsquo;re interested.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p id=\"monterey-network-quality-tool-update-2023-05-15\">Update (2023-05-15): <a href=\"https:\/\/cyberhost.uk\/the-hidden-macos-speedtest-tool-networkquality\/\">CyberHost<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=35936999\">Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/cyberhost.uk\/the-hidden-macos-speedtest-tool-networkquality\/\"><p>The Network Quality tool also supports Apple&rsquo;s Private Relay feature, which encrypts and routes all network traffic through two separate servers for added privacy and security.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Petrov (via Hacker News): Apple has quietly added a new tool in macOS Monterey for measuring your device&rsquo;s Internet connectivity quality. You can simply call the executable networkQuality, which executes the following tests:Upload\/download capacity (your Tx\/Rx bandwidth essentially)Upload\/download flows, this seems to be the number of test packets used for the responsiveness testsUpload\/download responsiveness [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2021-11-16T20:52:03Z","apple_news_api_id":"c1e3c778-6694-4717-90d5-ed550b7cbbde","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2023-05-15T19:56:05Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAw==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AwePHeGaURxeQ1e1VC3y73g","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2154,30,2077,476,318,163],"class_list":["post-34182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-icloud-private-relay","tag-mac","tag-macos-12","tag-networking","tag-terminal","tag-unix"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34182"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39389,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34182\/revisions\/39389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}