OS X is holding back the 2013 MacBook Air’s 802.11ac Wi-Fi speeds

Re:OS X is holding back the 2013 MacBook Air’s 802.11ac Wi-F... by asafira on Monday June 24, 2013 @06:10PM (#5936073)

I think it's worth pointing out that Anand did a good piece on this, with some more details into his methodology:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/7085/the-2013-macbook-air-revi...

Anandtech has some great reviews --- I recommend them to anyone that has ever fallen into the trap of reading a CNET review, product a product, and then realizing it falls short of expectations. That, and I also recommend them to anyone interested in diving into some of the more technical details of processor architecture and benchmarking, screen diagnostics, and more detailed write-ups on device performance.

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Re:OS X is holding back the 2013 MacBook Air’s 802.11ac Wi-F... by mblakele on Monday June 24, 2013 @09:15PM (#5936879)

Anand wrote "I spent a good amount of time trying to work around this issue, even manually setting TCP window size in OS X, but came up empty handed. I’m not overly familiar with the networking stack in OS X so it’s very possible that I missed something, but I’m confident in saying that there’s an issue here."

I wonder if he tried net.inet.tcp.win_scale_factor=8 and kern.ipc.maxsockbuf=16777216 as recommended by http://fasterdata.es.net/host-tuning/osx/ and other sites?

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Re:OS X is holding back the 2013 MacBook Air’s 802.11ac Wi-F... by asafira on Monday June 24, 2013 @11:40PM (#5937377)

buying* a product. My bad!

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