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Internet Efficiency OS/X vs. OS/9.x

mnewman

04-17-2002, 07:55 PM

I have a small home network: Dial-up Airport, Ethernet Switch, wireless iBook, wired 7500 and wired iMac. The iBook runs OS/X, the other two OS/9.1.

The 7500 uses IPNetTurner with the "download and surf" configuration. With that I can be dowloading a file and still surf the internet, fetch e-mail, etc. Bandwidth is equitably divided between various TCP clients.

On the iBook, running OS/X, if I download a file, I can barely use other TCP clients at all, because the download consumes all of the bandwidth; other clients seem to get nothing.

Is there some way to adjust the TCP configuration in OS/X so that bandwidth is more even divided between all TCP client apps the way IPNetTuner does on OS/9?

theeggman98

04-18-2002, 01:08 AM

An interesting question so I did some digging and found a program that I haven't tried but it says it works for all tcp/ip programs.

http://www.intrarts.com/quest/throttle.html

For the more experienced user it looks as if bandwidth can be controlled through certain network .conf files. I could not find any OS X specific examples but plenty of Linux and BSD.

For more info search for "traffic shaping" at google.

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