How to test your Mac’s Internet speed and quality
The past two years has put new emphasis on how important an Internet connection is to our daily lives. At the same time, some of us have never experienced such slowdowns and erratic performance as in these past two years, coupled with overloading our previously capable home networks. Measuring Internet networking performance can help us stay efficient, keep entertained and remain less frustrated.
Several tools can help you measure or monitor your Internet and network performance, and many of them are free. One is even built into macOS Monterey.
MONITOR VERSUS MEASURE, INTERNET VERSUS NETWORK
Checking in on your network health is always complicated by your position relative to the Internet. Within your network, the speed of your connection via Ethernet or
