Hawking Broadband Booster

how does this thing work and is it any good for boosting ??
and how much by ?

tarzan wrote:
> how does this thing work and is it any good for boosting ??
> and how much by ?

I'm highly suspicious of their claims of 400% improvement.

My guess is that it improves throughput by combining like packets into larger
packets up to the MTU of the connection, and eliminating the header overhead of
the combined packets.

I.e. if your application sends 'HELLO' as five packets, each containing one
byte, each of those packets has a header which includes the source address,
destination address, source and destination ports, protocol, sequence numbers,
blah blah blah. If you send the data as one packet containing five bytes, you
only send one lot of header information. If the header is, say, 20 bytes long,
then sending 1 x (20 + 5) instead of 5 x (20+1) results in far less bandwidth used.

Bear in mind that ADSL is presented as IP packets encapsulated in PPP
encapsulated in ATM. This trebles the header overhead. By packing ATM packets
up to the MTU of the connection, atleast one layer of this wastage can be reduced.

Of course, it may be something entirely different. That's just my guess.
Nothing is going to improve on the raw bit rate that your telecoms provider is
supplying.

How this helps downstream traffic, I don't know. Presumably you'd have to have
something like this at both ends of the bottlenecked connection. (Or have I
missed the boat here?)

Jim

tarzan wrote

> how does this thing work and is it any good for boosting ??
> and how much by ?
>
>

Depends upon what you're using your connection for and how much you're
using it -
http://www.tomsnetworking.com/Review...rodID-HBB1.php

The next generation of routers will prolly incorporate this QoS
technology.

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> tarzan wrote
>
>> how does this thing work and is it any good for boosting ??
>> and how much by ?
>>
>>
>
> Depends upon what you're using your connection for and how much you're
> using it -
> http://www.tomsnetworking.com/Review...rodID-HBB1.php
>
> The next generation of routers will prolly incorporate this QoS
> technology.
>

An interesting product but are there any equivalents that work with combined
ADSL Modem/Routers?

CJM wrote


> > The next generation of routers will prolly incorporate this QoS
> > technology.
> >
>
> An interesting product but are there any equivalents that work with combined
> ADSL Modem/Routers?
>
>

No idea. I can't see there's any urgency in needing one.