This is senior editor Dan Moren. We take networking for granted these days, but it’s still a complicated beast. If you want to go under the hood, Apple includes a suite of tools on your Mac to help ...
Network Utility was a fixture of macOS from its early days through macOS 11 Big Sur, when Apple dropped it, instead directing users to use command line tools. Apple’s argument seemed to be that the ...
The ability to ping servers is a handy diagnostic tool when you are experiencing problems with your network or accessing the Internet. By pinging different servers, you can pinpoint whether your ...
The Mac’s Systems Preferences Network applet enables configuring network settings, while the Network Utility (found within Applications\Utilities) provides a graphical interface for troubleshooting ...
Last week, Apple released macOS 14.6.1, macOS 13.6.9, iOS 17.6.1, and iPadOS 17.6.1 to fix problems with turning Advanced Data Protection on and off. In macOS 11 Big Sur, Apple deprecated Network ...
What is it? Network Link Conditioner is a new utility in OS X Lion (via the free Xcode 4.1 app) that will allow you to simulate less than desirable network conditions, such as a bad 3G connection or ...
Apple's macOS Big Sur update introduces new battery usage tools and brings back battery life time estimates, but deprecates the Network Utility tool. In macOS Big Sur, there's a battery Usage History ...
Henry Albert writes in with a puzzle related to using AirPort Utility to configure his network’s Apple base stations: On my MacBook Pro and my iPhone, the access points appear correctly, just not on ...
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