MTU Sizes

Owing to an erratic internet connection my ISP has suggested I try the
following MTU settings;

1458, 1478 and 1500

My Linksys router's manual has the following suggestions;

Try this list of values, one value at a time, in this order, until your
problem is solved:
1462
1400
1362
1300

Microsoft apparently say do not go below 1400

None of these suggestions appear to match up, what do the numbers
represent, I am baffled.

Geoff Lane

On Tue, 03 Jul 2007 20:36:20 +0100 Geoff Lane
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felt we might be interested in the following...


> Owing to an erratic internet connection...


Gah! Geoff, yet another new thread on the same subject with yet another
pointless follow up!

Please follow some kind words of advice offered earlier...


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In message <f6e8f6$ekq$(E-Mail Removed)>, Geoff Lane
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>None of these suggestions appear to match up, what do the numbers
>represent, I am baffled.

If you don't want the answer here don't ask here. I believe you have
been told this already. If you set follow ups let people know in the
body of the text. I have given the solution to your problem on a random
ng
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Devs wrote:

>> None of these suggestions appear to match up, what do the numbers
>> represent, I am baffled.
>
> If you don't want the answer here don't ask here. I believe you have
> been told this already.

The English language can be complicated and on occasions something that
seems straight forward when written is taken to mean something different
by someone else.

Perhaps when I asked what the numbers represent I could have used a
different word, it has been answered in previous messages what the MTU
refers to but I meant to enquire as to the relationship of the numbers
being suggested.

Apologies for any confusion and thanks for all the advice, I certainly
understand the theory now.

Hopefully the followup-To: will be done correctly in the future :-))

Geoff Lane