How are you measuring this increase in download "speed"?
Using an external timer, or are you depending on the
application that you use to download to tell you the
download rate is 3.0 kb/sec v/s 2.8 kb/sec?
If it is the latter, could you repeat your tests using an
external stopwatch?
Yes this is possible to do either of the 2 tasks it claims to do it would need super user privileges. Unless you got a authorization dialog, or if
it installed itself setuid (in which case you would have had an
authorization dialog when you installed it.
Frederick Cheung wrote:
Yes this is possible to do either of the 2 tasks it claims to do it would need super user privileges. Unless you got a authorization dialog, or if
it installed itself setuid (in which case you would have had an authorization dialog when you installed it.
Sorry about the last.
Which two things? It is a "CFM binary"
(whatever that means) and it claims to be
Carbon.
It appears to slightly improve download speed.
Can't be certain, since you have to disconnect
and redial to compare and speeds fluctuate even
on the same modem/connection. The apparent
improvement was about 20%.
It would need super user privs to tweak tcp/ip parameters or to affect
memory allocation.
Frederick Cheung wrote:
It would need super user privs to tweak tcp/ip parameters or to affect memory allocation.
Ah, yes, that's true. But I'm sure there are other ways
to speed up downloads. As for memory, that's the _other_ app.
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