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Anyone using Cocktail Software for optimizing network?

No bias intended towards or against it, new to MAC but PC geek for years. I only came across this software but figured with all the MAC experts on here that there might be other viable options from other software vendors.
 
mindquest said:
Look at the overview in regards to networking and you will see what I am looking for.

http://www.maintain.se/cocktail/index.php

So miles01110 do you know of any type of software out there for the MAC?
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Here's the networking overview:

  1. Change speed, duplex and MTU of network cards
  2. Easily optimize network settings for common connection types (Dial-up/PPP, Bluetooth/GPRS/EDGE, Satellite, DSL/PPPoE, Cable modem and Fiber/FiOS)
  3. Manually modify TCP receive and send window sizes, TCP slow link window size, UDP outgoing datagram size, UDP receive buffer size, receive and send buffer sizes for local stream sockets as well as state of delayed ACKs, NewReno Fast Recovery and RFC-1323 extensions
  4. Configure the built-in (File Sharing) Mac OS X file server
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1. Unless you are a networking professional, this is unnecessary and won't help you.
2. This is vague and for the typical end user will make zero difference.
3. Unless you are a networking professional, this is unnecessary and won't help you.
4. You don't need special software to do this. http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1549

So, once again- why do you think you need #1-3, since #4 has been answered for you?
 
miles01110 said:
Here's the networking overview:



1. Unless you are a networking professional, this is unnecessary and won't help you.
2. This is vague and for the typical end user will make zero difference.
3. Unless you are a networking professional, this is unnecessary and won't help you.
4. You don't need special software to do this. http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1549

So, once again- why do you think you need #1-3, since #4 has been answered for you?
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I'll assume by the continued line of questions on why I need it and not suggestions or recommendations of a software package that your not familiar with this, but thanks for your attempt!
 
Here's a relevant article:
http://www.brighthub.com/computing/mac-platform/articles/93825.aspx

In any case, Cocktail isn't doing anything magical to the system; it just provides "chrome" over the various existing interfaces to the network stack.

So for instance, I could offer nano (a commandline text editor) as a suggestion for network performance tuning, since most of the network features of Cocktail can be replicated by editing /etc/sysctl.conf (example here: http://echeng.com/journal/2010/09/08/mac-os-x-snow-leopard-ethernet-optimization/ ).

To reiterate miles01110's point, however, can you be more specific about your network tuning needs? A user trying to get the highest possible performance from a NAS array is going to have vastly different options than a user trying to get a lower ping time in an FPS...
 
mindquest said:
I'll assume by the continued line of questions on why I need it and not suggestions or recommendations of a software package that your not familiar with this, but thanks for your attempt!
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You need to learn how to provide relevant information. Since you most likely have no idea what you (or I) am talking about, I'll just assume you are tilting at windmills and will be just fine with the default installation of OS X. Enjoy.
 
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