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Monterey Upgrade Bandwidth Test

Forum|Forum|4 years ago
March 17, 2022
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tlance
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Hello,

We are trying to come up with a way to deploy Monterey via Self Service to our students remotely.

However, some students do not have the most reliable speed and we want to have them run a test to see if it is possible.

If their speed is not reliable, we will recall the laptops and upgrade at the school.

Would anyone happen to know of a script that we can use to "pre-test?"

We are an all Mac environment, currently on Catalina. The laptops deployed are MacBook Air (13-inch Early 2015).

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Tom

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sdagley
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Forum|Forum|4 years ago
March 17, 2022

@tlance I don't have a good solution to how you'd test the bandwidth for each machine, but what you could do is take the InstallAssistant .pkg for Monterey (download links are available on https://mrmacintosh.com/macos-12-monterey-full-installer-database-download-directly-from-apple/ ) and then use https://github.com/kc9wwh/pkgChunker (do NOT use the .pkg under Releases, instead copy the script from the raw source page) and modify Line 88 it to split things into chunks of 1GB or smaller so that you're not trying to download the full 12+GB installer at one time.

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tlance
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Forum|Forum|4 years ago
March 17, 2022

@tlance I don't have a good solution to how you'd test the bandwidth for each machine, but what you could do is take the InstallAssistant .pkg for Monterey (download links are available on https://mrmacintosh.com/macos-12-monterey-full-installer-database-download-directly-from-apple/ ) and then use https://github.com/kc9wwh/pkgChunker (do NOT use the .pkg under Releases, instead copy the script from the raw source page) and modify Line 88 it to split things into chunks of 1GB or smaller so that you're not trying to download the full 12+GB installer at one time.

Thank you for that. I will look into it.