Free broadband speed check software for mac

Like most operating systems, Mac OS doesnt come out of the box to take full advantage of a high-speed, broadband internet connection.

Luckily, because of its Unix base, theres an easy fix for that. By making certain tweaks to your network settings, you may be able to almost double your download speeds.

The Broadband Tuner allows you to take full advantage of very high speed Internet connections that have a high latency (5 Mbps or faster). The installer tweaks some system parameters.

There is an optional uninstaller that can be used to restore the settings that were in effect at the time just before the system parameters were changed.

The installer increases the default values for the size of the TCP send and receive buffers. With larger buffers more data can be in transit at once. A startup configuration file is also updated so that these changes will persist across restarts.

The system parameters are sysctl variables that are set as follows:

net.inet.tcp.sendspace: 131072
net.inet.tcp.recvspace: 358400
kern.ipc.maxsockbuf: 512000

This change has a system wide effect and is applied even if the network is not high speed connection with a high latency, with the exception of modem connections for which the system uses small default TCP buffer sizes.

This download supports: English.

Disk Speed Bench X is a benchmark utility, which shows you your transferespeed of your Disks or other Volumes.
Enhancements:
- Supports Harddisks and other Volumes.

Advisory Check is a tool for monitoring the security of installed software. Advisory Check gathers security advisories using RDS/RSS/XML feeds, compares them against a list of known software, and alerts you if youre vulnerable.
NOTE: Advisory Check is licensed and distributed under the terms of the BSD License.

Enhancements
- Windows hosts can now be monitored remotely by using the MS-RPC protocol. INSTALL and install.sh files have been added.

WAN Check automatically checks to see if you are connected to the internet, and alerts you if you arent! You can change the frequency of the checking, as well as have it alert you when you are reconnected again. It can log the date/time, e-mail you, and just display an alert message.
Enhancements:
- Reset utility included to fix some bugs with old pref files
- Display note to notify you that the wancheckd started
- Optimized code a bit
- Error handling bug fixes
- E-mail notifications!
- Event logs written to /Library/Logs!
- Fixed version 2.2.2 update alert bug
- Ability to turn update check on/off

Speed Freak, at a user-specified interval, reprioritizes applications so that the frontmost (or active) application gets more processor time than background applications. By default in Mac OS X, all processes have equal priority.
By using Speed Freak, you override this default by increasing the priority of whatever application you are currently using, resulting in faster application performance. Speed Freak accomplishes this through the Unix renice command.
Speed Freak will not affect graphics card performance and will show little to no increase in 3D games. Although Speed Freak does not affect network performance, the increased CPU priority it offers should increase performance in internet applications. For example, web pages with complicated HTML should render faster but download speed will not change.
For more information, see the included ReadMe document in the download.
Enhancements:
- Fixes a problem with the Japanese environment.

The Dashboard in Mac OS X provides a great way to get quick access to small but useful tools during everyday computer use. The best part is that theyre so easy to create: theyre basically just tiny web pages with a bit of extra scripting thrown in!

Have you ever wondered how long it would really take the Enterprise to travel from Earth to Vulcan at warp 5? Or how far the Defiant could possibly get at warp 9 in just five days? What about figuring out how fast Voyagers maximum speed (Warp 9.975) is in multiples of the speed of light?

The Warp Speed Calculator is created to answer these questions. Simply input two of three variables (speed, distance, and time), and the widget will calculate the third for you. It will even convert equivalent units, like years to days, light-years to parsecs, or warp factors to multiples of c. And you, too, can sound like a Treknology expert!