I finally lost my patience with my old mobile provider last week & decided it was time for a change. While I was changing, I decided that maybe it was time for a Smartphone... Wow. It definitely isn't perfect yet, but this is by far the best mobile...

I've been working a lot with file sharing performance, and I'm trying to write a few essays on those experiences. The first, on SMB Performance , is up now. When I have some more time, I'm going to write a bit on the impact of packet loss on SMB connections...

I often have customers who ask me to wrestle with the performance of SMB (otherwise known as CIFS) across a WAN link. Their experience is usually that file transfers from Windows Explorer or from the command prompt don't meet their expectations of their...

There generally isn't a single correct way to figure out the optimal TCP window for an interface since you're probably connecting to different hosts across different links at different latencies; however, you can roughly guess what the optimal window...