Check WiFi Speed in Mac OS

Edited by Djinu, Alexander Avdeev, Eng

You're watching VisiHow. In this video, we are going to show three ways to check the WiFi speed on your Mac operating system.

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    The first way is to move the cursor to the top-right part of the screen where we see our WiFi symbol
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    We press the "Option" key and click the WiFi symbol
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    We'll be shown some additional information, including the IP address, router, and the transmission rate.
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    If we just click on the WiFi symbol, there will be no such information
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    Another way of doing this is clicking on the Apple logo in the top-left
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    We hold the "Option" key to get to "System Information"
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    We click "System Information".
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    We click on "WiFi"
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    We'll be shown detailed WiFi information.
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    The third way of getting the information would be to go to "Network Utility"
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    We click "Info"
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    "Network Utility" will show the WiFi link speed as well as other configuration information.
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These were three ways of getting the WiFi speed from your Mac operating system. If you have any question or comments, please leave them in the space below. Thank you for watching!

Video: Check WiFi Speed in Mac OS

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Categories : Macintosh

Recent edits by: Alexander Avdeev, Djinu

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