TCP Optimizer is an interesting Cydia tweak that claims to improve the Network throughput performance but not for all networks. According to the developer it only works for the Wi-Fi networks. After the installation, a user should be able to see improved streaming video  performance for example in YouTube, or any other network enabled applications (i.e. in Safari). There are is no icon placed in the Springboard or in the Settings app by the application. If you are experiencing a slow network ...

Normally broadband connections are pretty stable here in Stockholm and service downtimes are few and far between. Even if there is a temporary network service failure it doesn’t last long. It was precisely the reason when two days ago I was extremely annoyed at a time when I was remotely working on some Linux workstations that we have situated at KTH from home and suddenly my internet connection went down. I thought it is something wrong with my D-Link wireless router as it sometimes gets stuck ...

It is probably a month ago that I was testing some software that was taking so much time to start because at each startup it was needlessly trying to ring-back home to find an update (not sure that it was trying to find an update or trying to send some interesting info to the website). Nevertheless this process of checking for the update at each startup was not acceptable for me(unfortunately there was no option to disable the auto-update).  A simple solution was to just install a firewall ...