When we send this over to the widget developers, they generally check to make sure nothing's wrong with the code or the way the widget is running... which, in most cases, checks out fine.
When we send it to the network folks - admins and architects and that crew - they tend to check server-side to ensure we don't have a bottleneck in a given node or cluster. Sometimes a bottleneck is identified and resolved; more often, support gets back a reply that "the network is running great - no problems here."
Which then leaves a network member frustrated, when he still feels he's getting laggy performance from his cryptostorm session and we don't really have anything to tell him. For Linux members, some of our tech team can provide concrete recommendations on how to optimize their local machine's network settings to ensure good performance with cryptostorm - and we see examples of really, really fast cryptostorm connections when they get done! But we really don't have anyone on the team with Windows network tuning expertise... and so we're reaching out.
Are there any good resources, whether that's howto guides or specific tools or standalone applications or whatever, that are useful in understanding how Windows network performance can be optimized, controlled, and better understood? Or are there any specific pieces of advice members have, in terms of working with their own Windows-based cryptostorm connections to get the best performance?
Some of us on the support side of things have done basic googling for information... but probably our members know more about this than google, so we're asking here instead!
Thanks for anything you have to share and we'll pass it along to lots of people if it helps things go nice and fast.
~ cyptostorm_support
