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Take Control of Speeding Up Your Mac, 2nd Edition
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Take Control of Speeding Up Your Mac, 2nd Edition

by Joe Kissell
January 2019
Intermediate to advanced
205 pages
4h 33m
English
Take Control Books
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Speed Up Your Network

What some perceive as a slow Mac may have nothing to do with the Mac itself, but rather with one or more of the links in the network between the Mac and another computer (such as a web server). In this chapter I look at several parts of that chain to help you identify and clear bottlenecks.

This discussion of network speed is deliberately shorter on details than most of this book, for two reasons:

  • Because of the many variables involved in optimizing a wireless network, it would take an entire book to do that topic justice. Luckily, such a book exists: Glenn Fleishman’s Take Control of Wi-Fi Networking and Security, which I recommend.

  • The last comment notwithstanding, a large percentage of network speed issues can be solved ...

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