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Negative affects?
Authored by: bcamp1973 on Jun 19, '06 09:13:38AM

How might this affect my DSL connection? I'd love to have high performance on my home LAN between my server and workstations but will this negatively affect my DSL connection speeds? It's supposed to be 3Mbs+, but obviously you never quite get the speeds they advertise...



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Negative affects?
Authored by: thekurgan on Jun 19, '06 11:32:03AM

A couple of things to watch out for:

1. if you don't set maxthreshold to 0, these settings won't take effect until you have over 256 (default) sockets in use

2. if you set these windows too high, you'll get lots of retransmissions, which results in slowdowns and latency.

Netstat -s will show you several important pieces of information. I find that setting to 32768 is very good for the internet and my local transfers over 100mb ethernet.

YMMV

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