10 Tips For Boosting Network Performance

snydeq writes "InfoWorld's Paul Venezia and Matt Prigge provide hands-on insights for increasing the efficiency of your organization's network. From losing the leased lines, to building a monster IT test lab on the cheap, to knowing how best to accelerate backups, each tip targets a typical, often overlooked IT bottleneck."

Get drunk.

[Anonymous Coward]

Unplug wires in network closet.

Backups

[natehoy]

I learned from the BOFH that the fastest backups are written to /dev/null.

Get high.

[TrisexualPuppy]

Plug wires in again in a more colorful way.

11.

[Monkeedude1212]

Stop your IT Department from visitting Slashdot

Outsource everything to Google.

[ickleberry]

Just give Eric Schmidt a call, tell him you have nothing to hide from his company or the government and they will replace all your machines with shiny new Google Chrome OS based "Net tops", put all your data on their servers, give you a brand new direct fibre optic connection to their nearest office and all they want in return is the ability to meticulously sift through your data in order to find the best way to bombard you with text-based ads.

Everything is more shiny with Google.

Back to 56k

[Mishotaki]

Slow down your internet connection to a single 56k line... then people will stop trying to use it to look for porn and all the useless crap searches they do on google... You'll also save some money with the monthly bills!

Re:11.

[lgw]

2.Ban Microsoft shares
3.Ban NFS

If you ban CIFS and NFS, what's left? Sneakernet has great bandwidth, but the latency sucks and it's a bitch to search.

Re:11.

[Colin Smith]

Subversion.
 

Re:11.

[hedwards]

We use carrier pigeons, they can only take a couple "packets" of 16gb or so, but it only takes a few minutes for them to cross the city. We also use carrier rats internally as they can do the same thing with even higher capacity. We tried to work with carrier snails for a while, not sure why that didn't work out, but the packet never did arrive in San Diego like we expected. Snail mail my ass.

Re:Don't fight the system, use it.

[ColdWetDog]

How do I configure my Airport to do this? They said it was professional quality at the Apple store.

Re:11.

[jd]

I still play Zaxxon on MAME and that's a hell of a lot older than 12 years. I even play XTrek and occasionally BSD Sail. I can't wait until someone makes a movie version of Hunt the Wumpus.

Re:11.

[afidel]

I was specifically thinking of OpenAFS when reading AFS as I don't work with dinosaur herders =)

Re:11.

[hawaiian717]

AppleShare! For even more fun, run it over AppleTalk instead of IP.

Implement RFC 1925

[DaveAtFraud]

RFC 1925 [rfc-archive.org]

Cheers,
Dave

Re:Backups

[dkleinsc]

Also, the fastest way to speed up a network is reduce the number of lusers. Completely demoralize them, electrocute them, slip a laxative into their drink, so many options, so little time.

Re:Backups

[darkpixel2k]

The whole point of /dev/null is that it's writable, but not readable.

Exactly. Backups to /dev/null, restores from /dev/random.