A related issue is the simplistic design of most home
router/firewall/access point boxes. Having a router than can do even
simple traffic shaping (I use m0n0wall) can make a big different by
prioritizing short upstream packets over long ones - without this web
surfing while my wife is watching TV via Slingbox from Australia where
she's visiting is horrible, with shaping it's no problem.
John
Andrew Burnette wrote:
Similarly, your chosen settings (tuned or not) and the default
algorithms in control of your TCP stack significantly effect overall
performance and throughput. (note the default TCP algorithm in linux
2.6 kernel alone has been changed three times that I recall).
Try any of the speedtest sites out there from different computers (OS
type, or IP stack tuning) and you'll see statistically significant
performance differences between them on identical test criteria.
