Broadband Optimizer
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What is Broadband Optimizer? Broadband Optimizer v1.0 Like most operating systems, MacOS X doesn't come out of the box to take full advantage of a high-speed, broadband internet connection. Luckily, because of its Unix base, there's an easy fix for that. By making certain tweaks to your network settings, you may be able to almost double your download speeds. Broadband Optimizer works by increasing the memory buffers used for TCP transfers, so that data comes in bigger chunks at at time - Man-sized broadband chunks, not modem-sized kiddie chunks. BBO should now work on PPPoE-based DSL connections without modification - and also cleaned up the code a bit. Download Broadband Optimizer for Mac Requires Mac OS X Here's how to install Broadband Optimizer: • While logged in under an admin account, Open the Library folder at the root level of your startup disk • If there's no folder named StartupItems inside, create one in the usual way. Name it StartupItems - no spaces, capitalization counts. • Move the entire BroadbandOptimizer folder in this disk image into the StartupItems folder (/Library/StartupItems/) • Restart More details in the readme. Emulating this? It could probably run under: SheepShaver |