On 7/17/03 1:27 PM, "Michael Bigley" <wakinyan at fuse.net> wrote: >> I know this is an old subject, but I have found very few who utilize and >> take advantage of it, and that is using sysctl to boost browser and other >> download speeds. I tested it out with different numbers and the results >> proved accordingly. This hack works! > > Are these changes written to a file so they survive reboots, etc? No. What I had to do was open /etc/rc.common, and at the bottom paste /usr/sbin/sysctl -w net.inet.tcp.sendspace=65536 > /dev/null /usr/sbin/sysctl -w net.inet.tcp.recvspace=65536 > /dev/null /usr/sbin/sysctl -w kern.ipc.maxsockbuf=524288 > /dev/null /usr/sbin/sysctl -w net.inet.tcp.delayed_ack=0 > /dev/null /usr/sbin/sysctl -w net.inet.udp.recvspace=73728 > /dev/null :wq! I'm sure it can be done cleaner, but this works.