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Apple has a Broadband Tuner application that can be downloaded to increase performance if you are on a very high speed network or on a network with high delay (such as a satellite link). In both these situations the amount of data that might be on the network between the two computers is very high. Because of the design of TCP this requires larger buffers. The combination of bandwidth and delay is called the Bandwidth Delay Product or BDP.

The Broadband Tuner page incorrectly identifies FiOS802.11B networks might only have between 1 Mbit/sec and 5 Mbit/sec of bandwidth in real world usage however 802.11N draft products like Airport Extreme have provided over 100Mbit/sec of bandwidth which is more than enough to take advantage of FiOS’s 20Mbit/sec (or more).