Apple releases Broadband Tuner 1.0
updated 10:40 pm EST, Mon November 28, 2005
Broadband Tuner 1.0
Apple today released , a new system utility designed to take full advantage of very high speed Internet connections that have a high latency (5 Mbps or greater). Apple's documentation says that the "installer tweaks some system parameters. There is an optional uninstaller that can be used to restore the settings that were in effect at the time just before the system parameters were changed....The installer increases the default values for the size of the TCP send and receive buffers. With larger buffers more data can be in transit at once. A startup configuration file is also updated so that these changes will persist across restarts." The file is 320KB and available directly from Apple.











If only...
11/29, 09:17am reply
Now if only my broadband (RCN Cable) was that fast to begin with. :^p
ebow
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Broadband tuner compared
11/30, 01:06pm reply
I am on a DSL line with a 2.3Mb/s modem. I used Broadband, Broadband Optimizer and Cocktail while running tests on http://netspeed.stanford.edu/
Tool outbound Mb/s inbound Mb/s Broadband 1.2 1.8 Broadband Optimiser 1.44 2.08 CockTail (T3 setting) 1.62 2.15
Cocktail worked the best for me.
Jim
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