If you want to understand bandwidth in all its esoteric complexity AND you want real-world tweaks, tips, and tactics for maximizing your system's ability to move data, Michele Petrovsky's Optimizing Bandwidth is your ideal source. Written in plain English, yet armed with all the technical savvy that pros require, this book shows you how to increase usable bandwidth on any platform; maximize bandwidth with connections, switches, protocols, interfaces, and operating systems; configure client/server apps and Web browsers for peak efficiencyNeven perform network "angioplasty" for improved circulation. Whether you simply want to understand why it takes so long to connect on the Web or you aim to design the world's premier multi-user, Internetworked systemNOptimizing Bandwidth puts the tools in your hands. It's the ultimate, state-of-the-art bandwidth enhancer. A volume in the McGraw-Hill Computer Communications Series.
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Tools to tame complexity and eliminate inefficiency. The hottest topic in computing and communications, bandwidth is too often the waist of the hourglass that keeps all that digital data from getting where it wants to go, as quickly as you want it to get there. From the lowest PC user to the most elite systems architect, everyone yearns for expanded bandwidth. If you want to understand bandwidth in all escoteric complexity AND you want real-world tweaks, tips, and tactics for maximizing your system's ability to move data, Michele Petrovsky's Optimizing Bandwidth is your ideal source. Written in plain English accessible to those without technical backgrounds, yet armed with all the insider savvy that pros require, this book tackles heavy-duty bandwidth topics head on. It will show you how to: grasp bandwidth basics, from TCP/IP through hardware, software, and connectivity; increase usable bandwidth on many platforms; choose optimal channels and topography; maximize bandwidth by changing the configuration of connections, switches, protocols, interfaces, and operating systems; configure client/server apps and Web browsers for peak efficiency; perform network "angioplasty" for imported circulation. Whether you simply want to understand why it takes so long to connect to the Web...need to fine tune a Web server...or aim to design the world's premier multi-user, Internetworked system--Optimizing Bandwidth puts the tools in your minds. It's the ultimate, state-of-the-art bandwidth enhancer.
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