WiFi Speedometer for OS X?

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WiFi Speedometer for OS X?

My wife's PC/Windoze wireless manager has a read out for WiFi connection speed. (I saw that the PC was getting 24Mbps connection speed from our Linksys WRT54G router.)

Is there an app or widget for Mac OS that shows connection speed to the router?

MacBook Pro 1.83 and 20" G5 iMac, Mac OS X (10.4.2)

Posted on May 11, 2006 5:22 AM

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Answer 1

a brody

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May 11, 2006 6:39 AM in response to Brooks Lester

There are quite a few actually:

http://www.macupdate.com/search.php?keywords=network+bandwidth&os=macosx

See which one meets your needs best.

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ds store

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May 11, 2006 7:09 AM in response to a brody

testing one two three

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Brooks Lester Author

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May 12, 2006 6:50 AM in response to a brody

I checked those apps out and none of them are what I want. I just want a little window or widget that says what connection speed my computer's Airport Extreme card has with my Linksys router.

My wife's IBM PC has a little network monitor tab that when opened shows what WiFi network she is on and what connection speed the wireless card has to our router. That's all I want.

I want to know how much my connection speed varies as I move the thru the house. I want to optimize antenna placement.

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Answer 4

a brody

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May 12, 2006 6:56 AM in response to Brooks Lester

You can monitor connection strength with Macstumbler.

http://www.macstumbler.com/

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Answer 5

Vipir

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May 12, 2006 6:58 AM in response to Brooks Lester

There's a widget called MiniStat2 that works cool.
It can tell you all kinds of system performance stuff.

http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/status/ministat2.html

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May 12, 2006 7:12 AM in response to Brooks Lester

Try this widget.... I noticed that in the upper right corner it states the speed, i.e. 54Mb/s, 11Mb/s, etc.

http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/networking_security/airtrafficcontrol.h tml

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Brooks Lester Author

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May 12, 2006 8:26 AM in response to Joe Raymond

I think I'll end up with AirTraffic Control. I had it before in an earlier version. Didn't realize the new versions showed connection speed.

Thanks Again.

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