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What are the optimization strategies used by the TweakMASTER Wizard?

TweakMASTER Knowledge Base article KB0094

Those strategies will differ greatly depending on the system. TweakMASTER is a smart program and reads your entire configuration and adjusts those options accordingly. Your options will be totally different than someone with a different configuration. Experimentation is the best bet. Try one, reboot and time your downloads, if the improvement is not as hoped, try another one, and so on.

Each time you change the strategy in the wizard, the settings should be at least slightly different. One is often a "safe" setting as many people ONLY run the wizard and may have certain types of connections that are hurt more than helped, so do not be surprised that one strategy or another may be Windows default or something to that effect. Again it depends on the operating system, Network cards installed, AOL, etc.

To verify the settings being made, simply run the wizard, make a choice and then say "NO" to the reboot, now go to the advanced optimization screen and see what the settings are for TCP Receive Window and for MTU. You need to use the dropdown arrow to check each available interface as the MTU setting may be different for each one. Note that TCP Receive Window, on the other hand, is a global setting for ALL MTU interfaces in older Windows OS. With Windows XP it can be set to different values for each type of network interface. TweakMASTER can handle this for you effortlessly.

Remember, you MUST reboot your system, before any settings changed can take effect. This is a Windows requirement, not ours.