Date: 24/5/2003
| I've been throw into bandwidth hell until the 1st of next month. My dear ISP recently upped all their prices for cable internet, so I chose a cheaper plan to compensate, however now I've used all my MB's (upgrading gentoo) and they've choked the access to 28.8kbit! (At least I'm not paying extra... I guess)
Anyway I discovered that at dialup speed most OS's TCP/IP stack falls in a heap. Downloads just slow to a crawl and stop. So after about 3 hours of rooting around google on a busted net connection I found how to set the MTU on Linux and Win2k. Which when set correctly can fix your choked connection enough to get the best throughput out of it. Dialup speeds like an MTU of about 500-600 for best throughput.
Linux:
ifconfig eth0 mtu 552
Win2k:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters\Interfaces\{xxx-xxx-xxx}
Set "MTU" to a DWORD: 552 (or whatever)
Just for the record...
*sigh*
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