Speed Up Internet Connection in OS X Tip

[kelly]

From Macfixit by way of the dealmac Forum.

http://forums.dealmac.com/read.html?f=1&i=...98283&t=1298283

You have to use Cocktail. Turn off delayed acks.

http://versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/18282

Cocktail > Network > Optimize

Seems to help my Dial Up a little.

You have to do this after every restart.

[Bruce_F]

It doesn't make any difference on my cable connection. I'm seeing 1.2 to 1.4 kbps download pretty much all the time no matter what I do.

There was a time when I used to see speeds of 1.7 to 2.4 kbps, but not any more. I have no room to complain because the service I pay for is 1 MB download and 126k upload.

  I guess I should be happy with what I have.  

[ljocampo]

Kelly:

I did that the other day with Cocktail, and it did make any noticeable difference on my cable modem.  But my cable modem consistently runs at 1.5kbps anyway so I didn't think it would speed things up much.  I also use Speed DownLoad and it works well downloading on 8 channels.  I can get a 90MB file downloaded in under 5 minutes no BS

 

[giantmike]

Instead of using Cocktail every restart, try BroadBand Optimizer. It has always worked well for me (giving about 200 kbps speed boost) on my Cable connection.

[ljocampo]

gaintmike:

That's what I'm using now.  I didn't want to have to reset those prefs each time I boot, because I never keep my Mac on, so Cocktail was dumped and broadband optimizer took it's place.  My mom didn't raise a dumb teletubby!  

[pendragon]

Thanks to you all! I just installed Broadband Optimizer and it seems to speed things up, but because speeds vary so greatly with my cable system, I am just not certain. Still, every little bit (and byte) helps.

Typical speeds this morning: 1.5 to 1.8 MPS with extremes at 1.3 and 2.2 MPS.

At first I wondered if what I installed is even working. But thanks to the ReadMe, I was at least able to verify via Terminal that all the required stuff (I try to avoid all that geeky talk) was where it is supposed to be.

Harv

[Bruce_F]

I'm getting really strange reports after starting up with Broadband Optimizer.

One try at a speed test site showed 5596.7 kbps!!!

The next tests showed a more realistic 925, 944 and 1200 kbps. So, it appears the nothing is changed, on the average, from the default settings set by OS 10.2.6.

[Bruce_F]

This morning, I got through to my service provider tech support. I know now why I'm not seeing any changes when I "optimize" my network settings with scripts like Broadband Optimizer.

The cable in my area is "controlled" by Click-Network, a city operated system. When they first went "live" and offered cable to the people, that had no buffers set up to limit the speed of their servers.

For awhile then, I was receiving cable service equal to a T-2 connection. That's not the case any more. They have reigned in the speeds so that if you're paying for 1 Mbs service, that's what you're going to get.

[FLASH1296]

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