SockTuner 0.7.0-alpha.1

SockTuner 0.7.0-alpha.1 — hardware capability collection build

Warning

Pre-alpha, in active development (Step 7 of 10). This build is a read-only inventory, diagnostics, and data-collection tool. Tuning writes are locked: it cannot modify your network configuration. It is not a finished product.

What's inside

• Full network inventory: adapters, drivers, NDIS advanced properties, routes, interfaces, bindings, offloads, TCP templates, QoS policies, Winsock catalog.
• Gaming diagnostics: layered latency/jitter/loss probing, path MTU, DNS timing, before/after comparison with local history.
• --probe mode: a read-only capability report you can share to help development (see below).

Help development in 2 minutes (no install, nothing is changed on your PC)

We are collecting real driver capability data, especially for Intel I219/I225/I226 and Realtek RTL8111/8125 NICs — virtual machines cannot expose these properties.

1. Download SockTuner-0.7.0-alpha.1-win-x64.zip below and extract it. No .NET install required (self-contained).
2. The build is unsigned: Windows SmartScreen will warn you → More info → Run anyway. (Optional: verify the download against the published .sha256 file first.)
3. Open a terminal in the extracted folder (File Explorer address bar → type cmd → Enter) and run:

   SockTuner.exe --probe
   

4. A dialog confirms the report was saved as socktuner-probe-<timestamp>.json on your Desktop.
5. Send us the file:
   • GitHub: open an issue titled Probe report: <your NIC model> and attach the JSON.
   • Discord: open a ticket on our server (invite link in the repository sidebar) and attach the JSON.

Privacy: the report masks your machine name, IP addresses, gateways, DNS servers, routes, and your MAC address (only the vendor prefix is kept). It preserves what we need: NIC model, driver version, PCI vendor/device ID, and every NDIS keyword with its current value, default, and valid range/enum. The file is plain-text JSON — open it and check before sending.

Verify the download (optional)

Get-FileHash .\SockTuner-0.7.0-alpha.1-win-x64.zip -Algorithm SHA256
# compare with the contents of SockTuner-0.7.0-alpha.1-win-x64.zip.sha256

Changes

• Add read-only --probe hardware capability mode with redacted, shareable JSON export.
• Public release preparation: MIT license, probe instructions, CI badges.
• Dependency updates (Dependabot): test SDK 18.8.1, xunit runner 3.1.5, coverlet 10.0.1, GitHub Actions checkout 7.0.1 / setup-dotnet 6.0.0 / upload-artifact 7.0.1 / download-artifact 8.0.1.