| Details | | Publication Date: | 1998-05-01 | | Series: | Computer Communications Series |
| Size | | Length: | 421 pages | | Height: | 9.3 in | | Width: | 7.8 in | | Thickness: | 1.2 in | | Weight: | 28.0 oz |
Publisher's Note 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 efficiencyÑeven 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 systemÑOptimizing 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.
Most communication books focus on how to increase bandwidth, but this title covers all flavors of bandwidth--and how to optimize them--in one place. Includes quick "look-me-up" tables, hundreds of "tweaks", and "network angioplasty" to cure network circulation problems.
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