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PeakHour 6.1 · Public Release

Build 63217

PeakHour 6.1 gives the Advisor its own window and checks your speed tests against your internet plan. It also adds Wi-Fi alerts, new dashboard cards and a guided setup for latency monitors.

New
  • The PeakHour Advisor has its own window, with Your Network, The Internet, Speed Test, History and Report. Open it from the grade, the menu bar context menu, or Window > PeakHour Advisor (⌥⌘A). It needs macOS 26 or later.
  • Your Network leads with your grade, a plain-English summary and checks for Video Calls, Gaming, Streaming and Remote Desktop. Each issue links to a help article.
  • See what your speeds make possible: the video quality you can stream, and the time to download or upload a 1 GB or 10 GB file.
  • A path diagram shows This Mac → Router → ISP → Internet, with the latency of each link and where a problem starts.
  • The Internet shows each site on a map, and the route to it hop by hop.
  • History keeps your grade every 30 seconds and a log of your speed tests for a year, with filters and CSV export.
  • The Report has a new Routes section, with a hop table for each monitored site. Copy the report or export it.
  • Ask a question about your network: on macOS 27 with Apple Intelligence, choose Private Cloud Compute for richer answers. Ask knows your report, your routes, your history and the full speed test.
  • The Network Quality test is now called Speed Test. Its full report is the Speed Test page in the Advisor: download and upload speed, responsiveness (RPM), idle latency, latency under load and the test details.
  • Internet Plan: enter your plan speeds in Settings > Dashboard > Internet Plan. Speed tests show the share of your plan you get, and the Speed Test page says what limits it: this Mac's Wi-Fi or cable link, or the connection itself. Edit Internet Plan… on that page opens the setting.
  • New This Mac, Router and ISP cards on the dashboard. Hover over a card, then click to open its details. This Mac rates your signal and SNR and shows the Tx rate as a share of its maximum. The ISP card shows your last speed test.
  • Wi-Fi alerts: turn on Wi-Fi issues in Settings > Dashboard > Notifications to hear about a weak signal, interference or a slow link that lasts 2 minutes.
  • New latency monitors start with a choice: ISP to Internet, One Host or Custom. A picture shows the part of the path that each one measures.
  • Pick a site from a list, and the latency monitor is named after it. The list now includes AI services such as Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini.
  • Give each bandwidth monitor its own download and upload colours.
  • With an Annual Pass or a free trial, you can now buy the Lifetime License in the app, from Settings > About or the PeakHour menu.
Improved
  • A slow response under load now limits the real-time checks: Video Calls, Gaming and Remote Desktop.
  • On Wi-Fi, the advice for a slow response under load starts with a speed test over a cable.
  • A shared graph image now has a title, a legend, a scale and a time axis.
  • Last 7 Days now includes today.
  • PeakHour Remote graphs scroll right to left, as in the app.
  • The dashboard shows its readings in large type. Hover over a column to see the arcs and captions. Both readouts of a pair use the same unit.
  • Explanations open on a click: hover over a latency, a pillar or a name, then click the "i".
  • Connection particle effects are off for new installs. Without them, a plain line in the colour of the link's health joins the hops.
  • The Advisor window also opens with the AI Advisor off, for speed tests, history and routes. The dashboard then shows an Advisor button in place of the grade.
  • Router to ISP and ISP to site monitors show an estimate instead of 0.0 ms.
  • Turning off the Internet Dashboard asks whether to delete its monitors or keep them.
Fixed
  • When your ISP blocks traceroute, the Advisor shows the ISP link as "Not measured", and PeakHour no longer sends a false "Internet appears to be down" alert.
  • Monitors that get no result now show an error instead of "Starting…".
  • Usage and quota totals no longer jump by about 4 GB when a router's 32-bit counter steps back.
  • With a full-tunnel VPN and both Wi-Fi and Ethernet connected, TCP checks of a local device now use the right network.
Privacy & security
  • The AI Advisor writes its explanations on your Mac by default. If you choose Private Cloud Compute, only your measurements go to Apple's servers, which don't keep them. Your Wi-Fi name, your Mac's name and the sites you added stay on your Mac.