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btw, on macOS, you can just enter `networkQuality` into your terminal for a speed test. No third-party website or tool of any kind needed, it's a built-in mac C
by pseudo_meta 3y ago
btw, on macOS, you can just enter `networkQuality` into your terminal for a speed test. No third-party website or tool of any kind needed, it's a built-in mac CLI.
- IntelMiner 3y agoWho's it measuring against? An (internet) speed test by its nature requires some remote third-party, if you aren't just testing to your own server
- kimburgess 3y agoDefault is Apple’s infra, but you can choose via a config flag. You can also run your own: https://github.com/network-quality/server https://github.com/network-quality/server
- sgt 3y agoThey seem to have edge servers around the world. Even here in South Africa, I got idle latency to be 27ms so it must be somewhere in the country. This is from running networkQuality on a MacBook Pro.
- tantalor 3y agoIn the case of tool built by Apple, running on Apple client hardware, against Apple remote server, that would be "1st party", not "3rd party".
- illiac786 3y agoApple traffic is also heavily prioritised nowadays. They want to avoid huge updates having to be redownloaded I expect. Apple TV would be another reason.
- IntelMiner 3y agoApple is a 3rd party to yourself