Speed testing is something we’ve been around for many years, usually in the form of a website. They help us check the bandwidth that is reaching all of our devices, and they are very useful in checking if our Wi-Fi is working or if we are getting all the speed that we have contracted with a provider. One of the most popular at the moment is Fast.
However, these websites are no longer the only ones that we can use to check the quality of our network. macOS Monterey has its own speed test built into the system, a novelty that has gone unnoticed among the rest of the new functions.
No need for a browser to measure the speed of your internet connection
This test does not have a graphical interface, so it must be used via the Terminal. You can open it in the Applications folder, in the Utilities subfolder. Once opened, you will only have to write “networkQuality” for the test to start.
The test analyzes the speed of uploading and downloading data (apparently it uses one of its own servers to check bandwidth), but also it also measures the number of upload and download packages and the response time measured in transactions per minute on the local network.
Oddly enough, the results that come to me are way less than the total bandwidth of my connection, so maybe Apple’s servers cannot handle a speed of 600 Mbps or the way it measures cannot achieve this. quality. You can do whatever tests you want and see what results show up, but this little utility can be useful if for some reason we can’t or don’t want to use the browser.
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