Better Bandwidth Utilization

jtorin writes "Daniel Hartmeier (of OpenBSD fame) has written a short but interesting article which explains how to better utilize available bandwidth. In short it gives priority to TCP ACKs over other types of traffic, thereby making it possible to max both upload and download bandwidth simultaenously. Be sure to check ot the nice graphs! Also note the article on OpenBSD Journal. OpenBSD 3.3 beta is now stable enough for daily use, so why not download a snapshot from one of the mirrors and try it out?"

Comments

Hmmm

[Gortbusters.org]

can I better utilize bandwith by downloading OpenBSD too? :P

same bandwidth in relation to what ?

[johnjones]

ok statments like that tick me off its a silly thing to say

if your route is long then the chances are that along the way you will have a bottleneck and when you go across water it gets worse as all the repeaters get in on the act

saying things like " internet comes through at the same bandwidth" is plain silly

regards

John Jones

Re:Linux solution

[pe1rxq]

So besides not reading the article (which seems to be standard on slashdot these days) you didn't even read past the subject line?

Even the little blurp on slashdot had enough information like the line that says that its a method to maximize both up and downstream...

Jeroen

Yeah well...

[Loki_1929]

"so why not download a snapshot from one of the mirrors and try it out?" "

Yeah, see, I would, but I'm a bit concerned about security on my network, so I think I'm going to stay with Windows 2000 for now.