The path from your Mac to the internet
Four stops and three stretches, each with its time and one word.
Under the sentence, one line runs from This Mac to Your router, then Apple (the internet), then DNS server (your Mac’s). Above each stretch is its time in milliseconds; below it, a word.
- Your Wi-Fi, from This Mac to Your router: how quickly your router usually replies, and a word: quick, pauses on a beat, pauses now and then, weak signal, or slow. The small ticks along it are the last 30 replies: short ones came back quickly, tall ones took over 40 ms.
- Your internet, to Apple: how long Apple’s check page takes to answer, quick or slow. It’s called slow when it adds over 150 ms beyond your router.
- Names, to your DNS server: how long looking up a name takes. Your DNS server is often your router, but not always.
Under This Mac are your Wi-Fi generation and band, such as “Wi-Fi 6 · 5 GHz”.
A stretch is blue when it’s fine, gold when a reading is worse than its line, and dashed grey when nothing answered. Every colour also has a word, so the path reads the same without it, and VoiceOver reads the whole path as one sentence.