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General Category => Techie Or Suggestions => Topic started by: Fly on April 28, 2012, 09:00:43 AM

Title: MTU settings.
Post by: Fly on April 28, 2012, 09:00:43 AM

Checked mine, was getting 100% dropped packets.
Lowered the MTU setting to 1400, now getting 0% dropped packets.

http://www.kitz.co.uk/adsl/tweak2.htm (http://www.kitz.co.uk/adsl/tweak2.htm)

Title: Re: MTU settings.
Post by: therealjr on April 28, 2012, 11:19:55 AM

Lucky you!
Am I supposed to understand a word of that?
Think I prefer your postings when you've been drinking!  8)

Title: Re: MTU settings.
Post by: k4blades on April 28, 2012, 03:42:18 PM

Surely you know MTU.

(More Taxi Urbanisation!)
 ;)

Title: Re: MTU settings.
Post by: Fly on April 28, 2012, 05:29:32 PM

Quote from: therealjr on April 28, 2012, 11:19:55 AM

Lucky you!
Am I supposed to understand a word of that?
Think I prefer your postings when you've been drinking!  8)

Ha ha ha  :-X

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximum_transmission_unit (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximum_transmission_unit)

 ;)

Title: Re: MTU settings.
Post by: Pete on April 28, 2012, 05:52:08 PM

I didn't know what MTU was - and after a look at the Wikipedia entry, I still don't. What a boring page that is...

I too prefer your postings when you've been drinking - especially if I've been drinking too.  :-[

Title: Re: MTU settings.
Post by: Scimitar on April 28, 2012, 06:00:11 PM

Reaching for the bottle as we speak (nowt new there then)!! ;D

Title: Re: MTU settings.
Post by: Fly on April 28, 2012, 06:06:15 PM

It 'is' the Techie board  ;D

Basically, data is sent in chunks over the internet.
If a chunk is too big, it fails, and has to be resent.
This effectively slows your internet connection down.
Depends on your computer, modem, and  who your ISP is.
Lowering the 'Maximum Transfer Unit' size should mean less fails, and a faster connection.

In Theory  8)

And yes, having a drinky poo as I type  ;)