

If you want an overview of all your Mac’s life values in the menu bar and prefer a modern design, you also need to invest some money. If you need a little more information, such as the monthly graphical evaluation of the transferred traffic, you can purchase the extensive paid version for a few euros. If you really only want to display the speed of your LAN, this small app is more than well served. It is even possible to switch between bit and byte as a unit. This means Networker Lite shows only the current network speed. This app is kindly available in a Lite version for our purpose. If this bothers you, because you think that this value must be in bits, continue reading. The network speed is displayed in bytes, not bits. MenuMeters nests itself in the system settings, where you then have to make all settings clearly arranged. It can display not only the network speed, but also access to the hard disk, CPU usage and memory usage. Thus the extensive tool also runs on High Sierra without problems.

However, Yuji Tachikawa took the trouble to make MenuMeters compatible with the new macOS version. The practical tool originally developed by Raging Menace no longer runs in the original version on the Mac. MenuMeters for OS X El Capitan 10.11 and later We’ve found three handy tools for the macOS menu bar, so you’ll always know how fast your Mac is uploading or downloading something. We are not talking about the connection speed negotiated in the Wifi network ( which is displayed this way), but about the speed that we currently achieve. If you are interested in the current network speed which is currently reached during a current download, you can display it permanently in the macOS menu bar.
