Wow, there's a candidate for the Most Pointless Response Award...
Actually, there are some values that people often tweak in hopes of getting better broadband performance, sometimes with pretty decent results. Since I don't run Linux at home, I don't know specifics for Linux and broadband, but I do know that I was able to get an improvement in throughput on Mac OS X by setting the following sysctl values:
net.inet.tcp.sendspace: 65536 net.inet.tcp.recvspace: 65536 net.inet.udp.recvspace: 73728 net.inet.tcp.delayed_ack: 0
There may be something analogous that you can do in Linux. The idea behind the sendspace/recvspace lines is to increase the size of some TCP/IP fragmentation buffers so that you can send and receive more packets at a time. The delayed_ack flag turns off a waiting behavior of TCP with regard to acknowledgement packets.
Your mileage may vary, etc., but there's no harm in fooling around with sysctl and /proc/sys/net to see if you can get some better throughput. Also, check out ip-sysctl.txt in the /usr/src/linux*/Documentation/networking directory for some rather sketchy documentation on what all those values do.
Alexander Dalloz wrote:
Am So, den 18.04.2004 schrieb edwarner99@xxxxxxxxx um 14:24:
I know that Linux if pretty efficient at optimizing DSL connections and speed, but was wondering if there are any "tweaks" to be aware of to speed up downloads? Thanks,
No.
Alexander
