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On Wed, 27 May 1998, Matthew Marlowe wrote: > That said, I think CNN messed up their explanation rather > than giving wrong advice. I don't think so. They even said in their article that the technical details are based upon this URL http://www.sns-access.com/%7Enetpro/maxmtu.htm and this guy says stuff like: And, it turns out, depending on how your ISP and other routers encountered on the Internet handle your TCP/IP requests, that a MaxMTU setting of 576, often referred to as the "Internet Standard", will in many cases avoid the fragmentation of packets of data and the slow transfer speeds which result. > Stevens in TCP/IP Illustrated Volume I, pointed out > that lower mtu's on dialup lines could significantly > improve latency for interactive traffic while having > only a small efficiency loss for data intensive traffic. Most people are changing the MTU to speed up web browsing which is data intensive, not interactive. I think Karl's explanation of broken Windows TCP/IP stacks is more likely the root cause of the problem. But has anyone ever done a proper test of this with sniffers at both the client end of the network and the webserver end of the network? -- Michael Dillon - Internet & ISP Consulting Memra Communications Inc. - E-mail: [email protected] http://www.memra.com - *check out the new name & new website*
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