Network Quality Monitor
Something is slow. Is it your Wi-Fi, your router, or your provider? This answers that — by measuring your own router and the outside world in the same batch, once a second, so the two can actually be compared.
What it does
- Your side and the outside, side by side. When your router answers fine and the internet does not, the problem is not inside your home — and now you can say so.
- The link itself. Wi-Fi signal, generation, band and channel, and the speed your Mac actually negotiated with the router. On Ethernet, whether the cable is linked and at what speed.
- What is using the network. Live upload and download, plus a per-app breakdown. Most “the internet is slow” turns out to be something downloading.
- A history you can act on. Every interruption is recorded with the time it started and how long it lasted.
- A report you can send. Plain text, with the method spelled out and an honest note on what the numbers do not prove.
Why “0.08% packet loss” is not good enough
That number reads exactly the same whether you lost one packet an hour all week, or the connection died for two minutes on Tuesday at three in the morning. The first is a healthy link. The second is worth a phone call. An average that cannot tell them apart is not measuring the thing that matters.
So this app records episodes: when it started, how long it lasted, how many times it happened. And instead of a mean round-trip time — which one four-second spike can drag anywhere — it shows the median, the 95th percentile, and the single worst reply with the time it happened.
What it will not tell you
It measures ICMP echo round-trip times from your Mac. It does not measure bandwidth, and it does not by itself prove where a fault is. Some equipment answers pings about itself slowly or not at all while forwarding real traffic perfectly — the app watches for that and says “no data” instead of painting your router red on evidence that cannot support it.
Privacy
No account, no analytics, no servers of ours. The only lookup that leaves your machine is your public address, it is optional, and it can be turned off. The details are here.