Sorry if I was harsh - but I was referring to your single-word "No." post. Why would you post that? What you write here is much more helpful. As for my own experience, like I said, I don't have any personally with Linux/Fedora, but I know that I was able to get an improvement on a similar OS, and I know that others have reported that improvements were possible under Linux. So I gave him info and pointers that I thought would help him investigate what he wanted to know, rather than a one-word "shut up" answer.
Alexander Dalloz wrote:
Am Mo, den 19.04.2004 schrieb Martin Stone um 17:04:
Wow, there's a candidate for the Most Pointless Response Award...
Then please feed me and and the others with real data - on Linux / Fedora! - for comparison between default TCP values and after "tweaking"!
I once did a research for DSL performance - whatever is meant by that: throughput or latency or what else? - and did my own tests. The conclusion from what I got by internet research (unfortunately I can not quickly find the testing again where the TCP value setting were checked) and by own tests was: does not change anything.
In contrast in an ethernet network TCP values have a bigger influence and respecting the specific environment and the services running it might influence speed and reliability of network connections to change kernel TCP stack parameters.
but for DSL home users it is worthless to fiddle with these things. There is even a risk to make things worse. A DSL user should better check whether traffic shaping make sense (keyword: wondershaper).
Alexander
