Using Content Caching on a Mac
Whilst lurking in a Macrumors forum the other day, I came across a mention of something I'd just never heard of before - and it's really easy to setup. If you have more than one Mac on your network, you can setup content caching, so that updates and iCloud downloads from Apple on one machine are cached for others on the network to use. Setting it up is just a few clicks, really simple. Go into System Preferences, select Sharing, then click on Content Sharing and tick the box. And - unless you run anything more complex than a single subnet on your network - that's it. Apple do recommend that you reboot any clients so they can take advantage of the cache. Full details are in this Apple support document , which also has links to other documents on more advanced settings (and how to set it up if you have a much larger network, for example). Does it work? I enabled my main Mac (a 2018 13-inch MacBook Pro - which is normally has a wired Ethernet connection, which is what Apple r