talon223 Posted September 5, 2007 CID Share Posted September 5, 2007 Is there any power to be had? Is it already at optimal settings, or what? I honestly doubt that it is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
talon223 Posted September 5, 2007 Author CID Share Posted September 5, 2007 Speedguide link ahhh...digged around a bit more...figured I'd post this on here for the general public, because I didn't come up with anything when I searched. Maybe save someone some trouble? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shug7272 Posted September 5, 2007 CID Share Posted September 5, 2007 Where the hell is Swimmer, he is the man with Linux. Oh well. Ill check out your link. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buntz Posted September 5, 2007 CID Share Posted September 5, 2007 I ask this question 6 or more months ago. I was tolled that there were no programs like Cablenut for Linux and that Linux really did not need any. The setting that come with Linux were all you needed. I just tryed do some speed test , but it 5:00PM on the east coast and my bandwidth is all over the place even with cable. Just too many people online right now. If I remember right the different between my windows XP computer and my Kubuntu Linux computer is very little. My windows computer at it best will do just over 9000 kbps using cablenut. My linux computer will do around 8400kbps with no tweaks on downloads. Uploads are about the same on both computer around 720kbps. My cable plan is 768/8000. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
talon223 Posted September 6, 2007 Author CID Share Posted September 6, 2007 you CAN change the RWIN....but on ubuntu/kubuntu, i found out it's a little different. Linux automatically measures different variables and tries to tune accordingly, but ...you can definitely see a boost from RWIN. I got a good 400kb boost just a bit ago... ahh...just dug this site up for you... guide to tweaking linux I played around with my sysctl.conf file until it got something done...just...everytime you make a change .."sudo sysctl -p" to ...apply the patch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
talon223 Posted September 6, 2007 Author CID Share Posted September 6, 2007 Btw...who is swimmer shugz? Sounds like an interesting character... I might wanna talk to him on MSN or AIM. Ahh..only a year on linux and I've already decided to become a unix systems administrator. Just started college this fall. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dlewis23 Posted September 6, 2007 CID Share Posted September 6, 2007 There are no programs for Linux. You do not need a program. Linux is already set correctly to max your connection speed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
talon223 Posted September 6, 2007 Author CID Share Posted September 6, 2007 Ahh...but it's still going to be a good idea to manually calculate your RWIN and put it in as the default value. Believe me man, you WILL see a boost. Besides, unless they've changed, Redhat, Slackware, and maybe SuSe do NOT figure up the best RWIN for you...and it defaults them to ..64kb? I dunno..I heard something about it at one of the local meets, because the guy was having slow network transfer speeds... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dlewis23 Posted September 6, 2007 CID Share Posted September 6, 2007 Ahh...but it's still going to be a good idea to manually calculate your RWIN and put it in as the default value. Believe me man, you WILL see a boost. Besides, unless they've changed, Redhat, Slackware, and maybe SuSe do NOT figure up the best RWIN for you...and it defaults them to ..64kb? I dunno..I heard something about it at one of the local meets, because the guy was having slow network transfer speeds... If i remember correctly there is no RWIN in linux. that is a windows thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
talon223 Posted September 6, 2007 Author CID Share Posted September 6, 2007 It's not called RWIN, however there is an equivalent value... Rwin, and rmem are both simply TCP/IP parameters..So they are universal. OSX has an equivalent value to RWIN rmem_default - default rx window rmem_max - maximum rx window there you go not trying to start a fight..just trying to prove my point ____ and back to tweaking on linux... I'm in the middle of setting up this: http://powertweak.sourceforge.net/index.html Hopefully it'll make changing network setting easier and more fun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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