On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, you wrote:
Hi I wonder if anyone has taking time to adjust there
mru or mtu settings? If you have what were the settings you used? I have
been told not to adjust them by my provider. But I read somewhere that
they need to be adjusted to get the best speed possible from my
Listen to your provider. From what I have been able to obtain in the
way of information this is more necessary when winmodems and Windows are
involved. Also, one may want to adjust them carefully. You may
increase your traffic over the net one way or the other at the expense
of the other
The default is 1500/1500. These are high values that
will give you optimal throughput with minimal
overhead, assuming your ISP supports them. If you
are getting reasonable throughput with the defaults,
don't change them. Many ISPs, however, don't support
the high linux mtu default value. I've
Thanks so much for the advice. This setting seems to have done the
trick.
The default is 1500/1500. These are high values that
will give you optimal throughput with minimal
overhead, assuming your ISP supports them. If you
are getting reasonable throughput with the defaults,
don't
