AppleInsider StaffApple today released Broadband Tuner 1.0, a new system utility designed to take full advantage of very high speed Internet connections that have a high latency (5 Mbps or greater). According to the documentation, 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."
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This was released yesterday, and it's not a utility.
This was released yesterday, and it's not a utility.
I utilized it.
How is this different from Broadband Optimizer which has been out for years?
I use these settings...
\t/usr/sbin/sysctl -w net.inet.tcp.sendspace=64240 > /dev/null
\t/usr/sbin/sysctl -w net.inet.tcp.recvspace=64240 > /dev/null
\t/usr/sbin/sysctl -w kern.ipc.maxsockbuf=524288 > /dev/null
\t/usr/sbin/sysctl -w net.inet.tcp.delayed_ack=0 > /dev/null
\t/usr/sbin/sysctl -w net.inet.tcp.rfc1323=0 > /dev/null
\t/usr/sbin/sysctl -w net.inet.udp.recvspace=73728 > /dev/null
Also, unlike Apple's Broadband Tuner it works with 10.3 and earlier.
It's not different at all. But Apple want to write every piece of software for OS X, so...
Probably because any time Apple *doesn't* write a piece of software, even if there are third party solutions, people gripe.