Anilrgowda

Question: I am new to MACs But expert level w/ PCs. other than running dsl reports to check my d.load / u.load speed. can i run some type of test (like PING) that allows me to trouble-shoot not only the connection speed to different routers / subnets - but also see if the MAC Is having dns issues ( just like when an xp machine gets rootkits and spyware which allows you to ping using dns but not open-up internet explorer to surf.

Are their any built in utilites or 3rd party utilites such as this,

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Anilrgowda

Look in the Application/Utilities folder
You'll find an application called Network Utility.app
This has ping, traceroute and several other tools under a simple interface

Alternatively you can run a wide range of network commands via the Terminal application as standard UNIX commands

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