Glen Turner, South Australia Regional Network Manager at AARNet, has shared with us detailed instructions on tuning your computer or other device to get high data transfer over networks like KAREN. His paper describes the TCP tuning parameters that are needed to ensure high throughput over 1Gb/s and larger networks.
TCP Tuning Workshop Paper - Glen Turner, AARNet
Also check out the Tuning for speed page on the KAREN website.
Andrew McKegg, Technical Specialist at REANNZ's covered a high level overview of performance tuning hosts and campus networks on KAREN. Ben Yeldon, Systems Support Consultant at Auckland University of Technology covered his experiences with performance tuning.
Here's a handy link:
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Contact: Any enquires or questions can be directed to: noc@karen.net.nz