The preferences pane won't let you configure the MTU on a wireless
network, at least on osx 10.4. If you're daring with a unix command
prompt you can probably set this to something else via the ifconfig
command. Do a man command on ifconfig for details. Probably something like
ifconfig en1 mtu 1400
You'll probably need to do this as root.
CB
David Poehlman wrote:
your router takes care of optimization, but if you haven't discovered the
additional settings I mention below, click the advanced button and the tabs
will appear.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Eickmeier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X by
theblind" <discuss@macvisionaries.com>
Sent: Saturday, May 17, 2008 8:36 PM
Subject: Re: a couple mac OSX questions
Dave,
In looking in the network area of system preferences, I don't see
anything like MIke is looking for to get the maximum speed out of the
connection I have here. I'm connecting wirelessly with my airport
card on the Mac here.
On 17-May-08, at 5:58 PM, David Poehlman wrote:
Hi Mike,
As I understand it, there isn't much you can do with what is in the
activity
monitor. There is a way to flip it to show different views but no
way that
I know of to configure it like services in windows.
The exciting news is that if you look in network, there are several
tabs for
your service and one is mtu. There are other things too that you can
adjust, turn on and off.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Arrigo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS
Xby
theblind" <discuss@macvisionaries.com>
Sent: Saturday, May 17, 2008 5:37 PM
Subject: a couple mac OSX questions
Hi all. I had a couple questions about leopard itself. First, are
there any
settings that allow you to control the packet size when using the
internet,
things such as mtu, etc? Or does the mac automatically adjust this?
I wanted
to make sure I was getting the best transfer rates with my high speed
connection. Also, I was looking in the activity monitor at the
different
processes running, does the mac have something to similar to
services, or
are the 12 or so processes that were displayed part of the operating
system
itself? Thanks.
