kernel optimization for long distance download??

[Jonathan Ben Avraham]

Could mean that they upped the maximum number of TCP connections assuming 
that long haul downloads are slower and therefore will require more 
concurrent active connections.

But seriously, do a traceroute to see what the difference is.

  - yba


On Tue, 2 Mar 2010, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote:

> Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 15:45:07 +0200
> From: Hetz Ben Hamo <hetzbh at gmail.com>
> To: linux-il <linux-il at cs.huji.ac.il>
> Subject: kernel optimization for long distance download??
> 
> Hi people,
>
> I'm having an argument with a hosting company abroad. Their mirror server
> gives me full speed download (600k on my 5Mbit ADSL) while my server there
> gives me half.
> They say that they don't use any QoS tricks.
>
> I have talked to their support and I heard a weird claim: their mirror
> server's kernel is "optimized for long distance download".
> I never heard of such a thing in my life with the Linux kernel of such a
> thing..
>
> Could someone shed a light of such a thing? or is it a simple lie?
>
> Thanks,
> Hetz
>
>

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