Some software on Windows claim to boost internet speed by 220%!!! Just wondering whether anybody tried those and whether it is true in the first place.
Generally speaking, those ads are lies. You _can_ sometimes see big increases in throughput on Windows systems, but that is usually because the MTU has not been properly set, or because the network parameters and TCP/IP stack have not been optimized for the type of connection you actually have. Linux in general has good defaults set, so there is not much optimization you can do... some, yes, but not that much. And for that "some" you have to know more than I do. <grin>
If the computer has been properly optimized (and Linux has) then your connection speed depends not so much on your individual bandwidth available, but rather on the whole chain of computers in between you and your destination. If you traceroute www.yahoo.com for example, you probably get around 10 hops to its server. Whichever machine out of those 10 is more saturated becomes the bottleneck; so even if you have 100 Mbps at some Very Large University [tm], if you are going through a router somewhere with only 1 Mbps available, then you are not going to see more than 1 Mbps throughput no matter what you do.
Whatever connection speeds you get is partly an issue of your overall connection to your ISP (from your house/office/whatever all the way to the Internet backbone), and partly an issue of the overall connection your destination has. Boosting it is, IMHO, an empty promise and a way to get money out of people who don't know any better, since it is mostly subject to factors outside your control.
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