Robert, You dropped the leading slash "/" from Loren's post (see below). Jerry K On Thursday, July 17, 2003, at 03:33 PM, Robert J. Fisher wrote: > Where do I find this etc/rc.common > -- > Robert J. Fisher > fisherr at telus.net > Or > mediacreations2000 at telus.net > Home of Media Creations 2000 > http://www3.telus.net/mediacreations2000 > >> From: Loren Schooley <loren at flash.net> >> Reply-To: "PowerBook G4 Titanium >> List"<Titanium at lists.themacintoshguy.com> >> Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 15:02:40 -0500 >> To: "PowerBook G4 Titanium List" <Titanium at lists.themacintoshguy.com> >> Subject: Re: [Ti] Speed up >> >> 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