Sunday, March 19th, 2006
I installed Broadband Optimizer, a program that aims to increase network speed on Mac OS X by increasing TCP memory buffers, effectively making data come in bigger chunks.
I used 3 online bandwidth testers to quantify the improvement (clearing Firefox’s cache between each test). I took the best of three runs of each test.
c|net test
1350 -> 1586 kbps (17% increase)
bandwidth speed test
2300 -> 2500 kbps (9% increase)
beeline
1104 -> 1488 kbps (35% increase)
On average, that’s about a 20% increase in download speed compared to the default Mac OS X settings. I like it.
