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Useful built-in macOS command-line utilities

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700 points yen223 | 2 comments | 06 Nov 24 05:51 UTC | HN request time: 0.456s | source
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huskyr ◴[06 Nov 24 09:34 UTC] No.42058651[source]▶
I've never heard of networkQuality, that's seems like quite a useful tool.
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dmd ◴[06 Nov 24 12:58 UTC] No.42061564[source]▶
Unfortunately, it's not actually very useful, as whatever server they're using on the other end is severely constrained. networkQuality gives me:

Downlink: 884.856 Mbps, 198 RPM - Uplink: 13.238 Mbps, 198 RPM

whereas speedtest (whether to the official speedtest server OR a friend's home server in their basement!) gives ~700 Mbps uplink.

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1. lladnar ◴[06 Nov 24 17:30 UTC] No.42065818[source]▶
try

  networkQuality -s
That's a more apples to apples comparison to speedtest.net; Separate upload and download tests.
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2. dmd ◴[06 Nov 24 18:34 UTC] No.42067035[source]▶
Somewhat better, 867/114, but still not the symmetric I get on typical real workloads.