Sorry non-Appleheads, but this post will probably interest only Mac users. I’ve been running macOS Monterey since it was released but I just learned about an interesting new feature: networkQuality. It’s a command line utility to measure the quality of your network connection. Dan Petrov has a post about it that explains why, while it’s much like, say, fast.com, it also has a few advantages. Take a look at Petrov’s post for the details.
In the meantime, here’s a sample run from my laptop:
networkQuality
==== SUMMARY ==== Upload capacity: 6.400 Mbps Download capacity: 51.507 Mbps Upload flows: 20 Download flows: 16 Responsiveness: Medium (305 RPM)
There’s a manual page you can check for all the options and other information. It seems like a nice utility. My only complaint is the silly name with CamelCase name. It’s very un-Unix like and hard to type. Why not just call it nq or even network-quality? The capital Q is unnecessary and annoying. On the other hand, macOS will happily invoke it regardless of case so at least you can call it without the annoying capital Q.