 Shall we move on to to the next one? Yes. So I thought I'd highlight some of my favorite Network tools to diagnose what's going on. I like it or when things go wrong. Sure So the first one is Network utility now unfortunately, I don't know why Apple did this but Big Sur they deprecated it if you try to run it it'll say yeah, sorry You're gonna have to run all this stuff from the command line The good news is that you can take a version of a network utility from a Earlier version of Mac OS and it runs just fine under Big Sur. Nice. So again, I don't know why they did this The part that I like so it you know do you know Port mapping and ping and trace route and and all that stuff which you can again run from the command line But the one thing that I like with this is that it has an info screen That'll show you statistics that I don't know how to get from the command line Dave. Okay So The one that I think is most interesting is that it'll show you send and receive errors. Oh You can see that from the command line. I will find the command. I believe it's Keep going. I think it's IP config Okay, maybe All right, I thought it was maybe that's that Or it could be IP config. I if config will show you that stuff. I think I think I'm looking here No, it doesn't seem like it does It doesn't seem yeah, if one of you knows send us an email feedback at mackeycap.com Yeah, and if your network is working properly You can send something to feedback at mackeycap.com. That's right. Yes In fact, it often requires a working network to send a feedback at mackeycap.com so The part that I think is useful is again Typically if you get tons of send and receive errors, you probably have a bad cable. Yeah So this can help resolve that Next up This is the tool that I think you made me aware of Dave, but um, it's one of my favorites IPerf 3 What does IPerf 3 do? It basically lets you check your network throughput So Get your favorite package manager and IPerf 3 will be in there somewhere Homebrew or otherwise And then basically you run it on one machine in server mode and then you run it and oh you're running it You keep talking I got you man. I got you covered. Yeah So IPerf 3 is a great tool to check your network throughput to make sure everything is working properly Okay Next up This is something that you may not know exists, but we're gonna tell you about it So there's a Wi-Fi menu in the In your menu bar, you know, it's a little radio waves here if you click on that No matter what version of the OS you're running It'll show you some things like you can turn it on and off It'll show you available hotspots like I'm looking right now and it's like oh you can connect to your iPhone 12 as a hotspot if you want And it shows my You know my network Here's the fun thing about it is that if you hold down option and click on that menu You get a whole boatload of additional information to the network that you're connected to So I see the IP address the router what version of security the bss ID Channels gigahertz 80 megahertz Etc. Cool Just you have set if you have set up there's an app called Wi-Fi explorer in there that is that I've kind of I found Way better than I stumbler just in terms it shows all the same data the presentation of it has helped me In troubleshooting more than the way that I stumbler presents data So if you've got set up check out Wi-Fi explorer for sure. Oh, yeah Okay All right. Well, you you beat me to the chase So I stumbler was one of the first tools I use that will show you various information Mostly for Seeing what is surrounding you in the Wi-Fi world? and in the old days what would happen is It would show you what channel that you're on and it would also show what channel other people were on in your neighborhood Eero Prior access points that I have would actually let you set the channel Like Apple's airport and stuff like that I don't think the euro lets you do that. It just figures it out most mesh Setups choose their own channels and leave you out of the mix. Yeah, that's right Yep, okay, and Wi-Fi explorer. They just lay it out better so that you can easily see Oh, you know that channel is stacked with people. I want to be over here So you don't have to like you don't have to process the data. It just shows it to you graphically. It's pretty good Mm-hmm. Okay Another tool that I ran into and this um is probably more appropriate for enterprise users, but As an individual you can run it too, and I've actually done this Net spot so net spot also will do Wi-Fi Analysis, but here's the cool thing that it does that I think other tools do but It lets you do what's known as a site survey so what you do is you import a map of your premises into it and then you you start running it and It will basically Once you're done, and then you'll say, you know sample the Wi-Fi sample the Wi-Fi Sample the Wi-Fi and it will then when you're done with this operation. It'll basically show you the signal strength That the machine is receiving in various locations the good news about this is I Mean, it's probably kind of redundant with a mesh system, but especially with older Traditional Wi-Fi access points. Yeah It will help you identify dead spots and you could then maybe You know change the location of your access point sure again mesh systems kind of do this for you, but Yeah, but but it not not I mean they try to do their best But if you could if you know that you could move something to another location to spread it out better Like net spot is the way to get that information. I know I think net spots great. Yeah. Yeah for sure All right Another tool that lets you see what's going on in your in your world is Angry IP scanner. All right. Why they're so angry, but But yeah, you you run it and it'll basically scan your network and Show you the devices and ping and various things like that Probably a good tool if you think that there's something Wacky happening on your network or there's somebody on it that shouldn't be or a device, you know Is going haywire. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, interesting. I like it angry IP scanner. Let's see Yeah, yeah fast and friendly network scanner. I like it. Cool alright All right next segment. Yeah Well last one One more thing does stop. I like that this came out recently, but it does Health check for your network Advanced speed testing level one troubleshooting notifications of connectivity issues. Yeah, like every now and then it'll come up So it's smart enough to know your ISP Okay, um and like every now and then I'll get a notification and we like yeah DHCP on optimum is is is Sucking right now or Oh, there's a network outage in your neighborhood. So interesting, huh Huh? I haven't I mean I've seen I guess I know I do run thing desktop. I haven't seen it I guess I just haven't had those problems With Comcast or consolidated. I've had it tell me that my max internet connection is offline But I don't think I've had it tell me that's interesting. That's really helpful. That's cool Yeah thing they've done great stuff there. I like those folks for sure