Comments on: Quick Verizon FIOS Fiber Update

By: Mike Bailey

Mike Bailey — Tue, 15 Feb 2005 18:46:59 +0000

Hi, They finally got the fiber ckt lit in my neighborhood (Grapevine TX) yesterday and completed the installation last night. Here are the results using pcpitstop.com

Win XP 14140 KBS
Mandrake Linux 10.1 12250 KBS
Windows 98 just south of 10K KBS

By: Jacob Riskin

Jacob Riskin — Thu, 27 Jan 2005 00:54:31 +0000

Although I hear Linux 2.4 kernels have some sort of good automatic internal tuning, here is a basic guide to tuning TCP.
http://www-didc.lbl.gov/TCP-tuning/TCP-tuning.html

I would imagine that since fiber is very low latency and high bandwidth it would be similar to tuning any box one 10Mbit ethernet or faster. I have a very expert friend on the topic and i’ll drop him an IM later to see what he thinks.

Btw. If you don’t mind me asking where are you from?

By: Mike Bailey

Mike Bailey — Wed, 26 Jan 2005 21:44:31 +0000

Has anyone tried to optimize the tcpip parameters for a Linux box yet ?

I am due for an install next week and as it has been explained to me the techs will run a program to mod the windows registry that modifies the tcpip parameters to increase the effective download speeds.

By: Mike Bailey

Mike Bailey — Wed, 26 Jan 2005 21:40:11 +0000

Hi I am due for a fiber install next week. As I understand the process, the tech will run a program to tweak the tcpip parameters in the windows registry. However most of my servers are Linux servers. Has anyone updated or modified the sysctl.conf file to tweak the same parameters on a linux box ?

thx

-mike

By: limit

limit — Fri, 10 Dec 2004 08:24:09 +0000

Very cool… Hope it makes it to my area soon…