On Sun, 2003-08-24 at 22:10, Didier Casse wrote: > Hello all, > I've been wondering whether there's a command in Linux to test > the Bandwidth Speed directly. Up to now I've been using the site > www.aspeedtest.com to verify my broadband internet connection speed. I've > seen some scripts in Google but I have seen direct commands for it. > > 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. > > Can we boost Internet connection speed in Linux? If the answer is "yes", > then how? Thanks for the help.
The claims for how much they can 'boost' the speed are a bit exaggerated, and based on worst case to best case scenarios. Basically, all they do is to some round trip tests while tweaking a couple of TCP/IP parameters, notably MTU and Window size. Once they find the 'optimum' then the software sets the registry keys so that the settings are persistent. If you knew enough, you can do this easily without the software. Same with Linux. Test, tweak, test, tweak. In most cases, unless you are on a poor network connection (most of the speedup for Windows machines come from dialup, BTW) or have a poorly configured machines the performance boost is likely to be minimal. - rick warner -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
