Monthly Archives: December 2009

Published:
December 27, 2009 – 12:16 am
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By Dave

Operation Replace Cable Programming and HD DVR Box – Part 1 – The Plan 8

I’ve decided to replace my cable plan and DVR box with something a little more… functional.
Sure we get a ton of channels from Verizon FiOS, but we hardly ever watch them. Our television viewing habits mainly consist of a few programs that my wife watches and a few programs that I watch, but we almost [...]

Categories: Hardware, Software, Tech, Television

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Published:
December 23, 2009 – 9:26 pm
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By Dave

Tweaking TCP for Fast (100mbps+) Connections and Transfers on Linux 3

We recently did some speed testing on a few of the servers on our network, and we were not receiving the speeds expected considering they were sitting on a physical 100mbps ethernet port. The servers were indeed on physical 100mbps connection, however wget (TCP/IP, HTTP Port 80) download tests showed only a max of about 1.5MB/sec (note the 8bit/byte conversion, so this translates to about 12mbits).

Categories: Linux, Software, System Administration, Ubuntu

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