Network Adapter Settings for Maximizing throughput

21. Speed & Duplex

This has got to be the biggest throughput improvement of all. Assuming all of you networking hardware supports 1.0 Gigabits per second this will increase your throughput from 12.5Mb/s (on 100Gbps connection) to an impressive 125Mb/s. These max values are theoretical. On my network, the max throughput I was able to achieve was 114Mb/s on a single cable.

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22. System Idle Power Saver

Anything power-saving related is going to negatively affect performance.

23. TCP Checksum Offload (IPv4) and TCP Checksum Offload (IPv6)

It’s always a good idea to offload calculations to hardware whenever possible. Hardware is super fast.

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24. Transmit Buffers

25. UDP Checksum Offload (IPv4) and UDP Checksum Offload (IPv6)

26. Wait For Link

27. Wake Settings and 28. Wake on Link Settings

These settings are really up to you. If you want to wake your computer using magic packets then enable these settings.

Wake computer on incoming connection.

29. Wake on Magic Packet

Wake computer on incoming magic packet.

30. Wake on Pattern Match

Wake computer on pattern match.

Conclusion

In this post, we covered 30 network adapter settings, their effect on network data throughput and CPU utilisation.