Quote Originally Posted by ecaddict View Post
The trouble with searching a solution in non-router side is that:

1. Requires capable TCP stacks/OSs and e.g. the Linux version that I'm using does not work out of the box in that way and there is no information how to achieve that (the links don't have that)
Other boxes like media players are even less likely to support that kind of improvements.
So you want to make the router to force the ACK to be send less frequent?


2. For some protocols specialized programs (like winscp) may provide a bit of improvement, however that's not an option for Samba and for the rest of the protocols that use TCP (maybe in another Linux box).
Also my Linux PC (with a decent CPU/HDD) when doing a similar FTP copy test was only a bit faster, not reaching the 9 MB/s. So it's not just XP and the FTP that comes with it, but also other OSs have performance issue with TCP.
Samba performs really bad with the delayed Ack... under 100KB/s.
When I used ubuntu on 2 machines I was capable of reaching over 110MB/s with FTP and samba. I made 2 RAM disks (which is fairly easy in linux) on each pc to make sure that no read/write file delay was bottlenecking the benchmark.
Are you sure both systems had 1GB connections?