Menu Bar

The Menu Bar settings let you choose which monitors, Wi-Fi stats, and summaries appear in the macOS menu bar and configure how each one looks.

Appearance

Controls how PeakHour’s menu bar items are presented as a group.

Setting	Description
Combine into Single Item	Groups all of PeakHour’s menu bar items into one combined item. When combined, macOS may hide all of them at once if the menu bar runs out of room.
Show Dividers Between Items	Draws a divider between adjacent items.
Item Spacing	The gap between items — Tight, Normal, or Relaxed.

Active Items

The Active Items list shows what’s currently in your menu bar.

• Reorder an item by dragging the handle on its left.
• Remove an item by clicking the red −.
• Configure an item by clicking its disclosure chevron to expand its options.

Below it, the Available Items list shows the items that aren’t in the menu bar yet, in three sections:

• Bandwidth: your Bandwidth Monitors.
• Latency: your Latency Monitors.
• Utility: the Dashboard Summary, Wi-Fi and Usage Monitor items.

Click the button on the left of an item to add it to the menu bar. When all the items are in the menu bar, the list shows the PeakHour symbol instead.

Active items can be configured by type. Different item types have different options, described below.

Bandwidth Menu Bar Item

Shows a Bandwidth Monitor’s upload and download throughput in the menu bar.

The numbers are arranged:

• Top left: current upload speed
• Bottom left: current download speed
• Top right: total uploaded (when Show Totals is on)
• Bottom right: total downloaded (when Show Totals is on)

Setting	Description
Show Symbol	Shows the monitor’s symbol, which helps tell similar monitors apart at the cost of a little menu bar space.
Show Graph	Shows a small graph beside the numbers.
Graph Width	The width of that graph.
Show Totals	Also shows the monitor’s totals. See Totals.

Latency Menu Bar Item

Shows a Latency Monitor’s latency, and optionally packet loss, in the menu bar.

The numbers are:

• Top: current latency, in milliseconds.
• Bottom: packet loss (%) over the past 5 minutes.

Setting	Description
Show Symbol	Shows the monitor’s symbol.
Show Packet Loss	Shows packet loss (%) below the latency value.
Hide When None	Only shows packet loss when some has occurred in the past 5 minutes; otherwise just the latency is shown.
Show Graph	Shows a small graph beside the latency value.
Graph Width	The width of that graph.

Wi-Fi Menu Bar Item

Shows the live Wi-Fi figures of your Mac in the menu bar, so you can monitor your Wi-Fi connection without opening the main window.

The item shows the figures in up to two rows, to keep it narrow. When your Mac isn’t on Wi-Fi, each figure shows a dash (–).

Setting	Description
Show Wi-Fi Glyph	Shows the Wi-Fi symbol in the item.
Show Signal (RSSI)	Shows the Wi-Fi signal strength, in dBm.
Show Tx Rate	Shows the current transmit link rate between your Mac and the access point — not your internet speed.
Show Wi-Fi Generation	Shows the Wi-Fi standard in use, for example Wi-Fi 6E.
Show Access-Point Name	Shows the name of the access point your Mac is connected to. To give the access point a name, see This Mac on the Internet Dashboard.

Dashboard Summary (Internet Status)

A special item that summarises your internet status from the Internet Dashboard — a row of hop icons running from your Mac (left) to the internet (right), each coloured by status. It’s only available when the Internet Dashboard is enabled.

Each hop icon is coloured by its current status — green for OK, yellow for congestion, with a packet-loss indicator when loss has occurred in the past 5 minutes.

Setting	Description
Display Size	Router, ISP and Internet shows every hop; Internet Only shows just the final hop for a more compact item.
Show Speed Test Results	Includes the results of the latest speed test.
Show AI Grade	Includes the grade from the PeakHour Advisor.

Usage Monitor

A special item that shows your current internet usage, as measured by the Usage Monitor. See Usage Monitoring.

Setting	Description
Show Symbol	Shows the Usage Monitor symbol in the item.
Highlight Excess Usage	Shows usage in red when your usage per day exceeds what’s left for the period.