Tag Archives: tcp/ip

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).

A Simple Java UDP Server and UDP Client 13

For a class I am taking, we are testing out a simple UDP Server and UDP Client to demonstrate what each one does and how sockets work. They are pretty small and give you a good idea about how a UDP Server opens up a port, and then the UDP Client sends or receives data [...]