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    Wi-Fi Jitter, Erratic Ping, Latency Due To AWDL (AirDrop/AirPlay)

    I have noticed that Wi-Fi on macOS Ventura has high jitter. This affects any real-time application. It is common for latency (ping) to spike to spike from a normal 2-10ms to nearly 200ms. This has happened in 13.0 and now 13.1. The only fix so far has been to disable AWDL; which is used by...
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    Head to Head AirTag and Tile Location Comparison

    I placed an AirTag and A Tile in a padded mailer and placed in the rural route mailbox for pick-up. I wanted to follow the tags and see what the reporting comparison was. Two things became very apparent and yes, I realize that some of these facts have been reported but this experiment was...
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    Watch S3 & OS5.0.1 - Ping on Charger

    While my Series 3 Apple watch is on the Apple charger in nightstand mode, I am getting a "ping" every 2-5 minutes, the display comes on and then it goes off, similar to what happens when you put the watch on the charger at first. This has never happened before and only started immediately after...
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    Very high pings to router

    Hello! I have very high pings (and drop-offs) to router over Wi-Fi (tested with TP-Link, Linksys, Netgear on different networks): Request timeout for icmp_seq 51685 64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=51672 ttl=64 time=2944.538 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=51673 ttl=64 time=2741.381...
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    Network Utility App

    I'm new to Mac OS, and still trying to find my way around. This evening I was working from home, and needed to ping one of our servers. For love or money, I couldn't find a command prompt (equivalent). After search on Google, results shows it should be in Applications \ Utilities and Network...