my FTP speed

[Sean McMahon]

What's an mtu?  What is it used for just uploading?
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gregory Nowak" <greg at romuald.net.eu.org>
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


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> 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.
> >
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