[hm-one]

Is there anything available that you can recommend?

[chabig]

Mac OS X?

[hm-one]

thanks for the help. does someone have a real answer?

[chabig]

In all honesty. I don't think there are any changes you should try to the network settings in OS X to maximize network speeds. The networking in OS X is pretty solid out of the box. I believe the utilities that claim to maximize speed are placebos.

Chris

[Minch_Yoda]

there is some unix commands you can put in the terminal to make the packet sizes bigger and it will increase your speed
i just cant remember what it is

[Krypton]

Carrafix

[Mr. Blur]

TinkerTool System also lets you tweak the network settings, as well as lots of other handy little things...a nice package to have around.

[cpac]

earthlink also has tools that let you limit (e.g.) the quality of images that are downloaded to you computer when browsing the web to speed things up...

[Boochie]

There's a package called Broadband Optimizer that tweaks network settings that can improve your download/upload speeds. You can get it from versiontracker.com. In my semi-scientific tests it does seem to improve download rates, but YMMV.

[Fonzie]

Originally posted by Minch_Yoda:
there is some unix commands you can put in the terminal to make the packet sizes bigger and it will increase your speed
i just cant remember what it is

you can write this:

'sudo sysctl -w net.inet.tcp.sendspace=65536' <- maybe increase it to 98304 or something. It's hard to tell if it works but sometimes it does seems to load sites faster. But I never had any luck with the Broadband Optimizer program. Although it does the sam thing but also tampers with other things but unsure what it is. But have a look at the readme.

I don't know if "sudo" is necessary btw.

edit. 'sudo' seems to be necessary. I should have known and tried it sooner since i've written that command many times

[Boochie]

BBO puts a script in /Library/StartupItems to automate the command you identified below, along with a few others.

It seems to be faster but this may well be the placebo effect.

Originally posted by Fonzie:
you can write this:

'sudo sysctl -w net.inet.tcp.sendspace=65536' <- maybe increase it to 98304 or something. It's hard to tell if it works but sometimes it does seems to load sites faster. But I never had any luck with the Broadband Optimizer program. Although it does the sam thing but also tampers with other things but unsure what it is. But have a look at the readme.

I don't know if "sudo" is necessary btw.

edit. 'sudo' seems to be necessary. I should have known and tried it sooner since i've written that command many times

[Forte]

This page - http://www.dslreports.com/faq/7136 - has a link to useful little tweaking utility called 'RMAC' (which can edit TCP Recieve Space, MTU, and so on). It seems to do it's job pretty well.