What's an mtu? What is it used for just uploading? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gregory Nowak" <greg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Glenn at home" <GlennErvin at cableone.net>; "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Sunday, January 02, 2005 1:20 PM Subject: Re: my FTP speed > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > If you're on cable, using pppoe/pppoa, I wouldn't set your MTU all the > way to 1500, which will most certainly decrease your performance, and > may even end up getting you shut down by your ISP, because it would > appear to their systems that you're trying to use more then your > allowed bandwidth continually, or at least I've heard of a too high > MTU causing such things with pppoe. > > Greg > > > On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 11:17:33AM -0600, Glenn at home wrote: > > I did the following: > > ifconfig eth0 mtu 1500 > > I am not sure if this will make a difference, anyone want to try? > > If it does not help, I will try it with 1492, to see if that helps. > > go to 24.116.252.4 > > Thanks in advance. > > Glenn. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > !DSPAM:41d82d3554331220315433! > > > > > > - -- > Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFB2FeW7s9z/XlyUyARAo50AJ0Y7IJdpEOhi/dd93Wcdo5mrsF/MgCg36+e > +4R1a/QCRbwM901VqNucNHM= > =TSPb > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
