Re: @home speed/NT Speed Up Settings

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From: Robert Wilkens
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 1997 00:00

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elel@iexist.flw.lucent.com (Eric L. Edberg) writes:
>	Changing MTU and MSS will NOT affect throughput unless you
>	   have high CRC errors on the down or up stream paths.

This is just not true.

If you have your MTU set too small, packets will have to be fragmented.

Among other things, this means you'll probably duplicate or triplicate
header information for each packet.

-Rob

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From: rwilkens@ccur.com (Robert Wilkens)
Subject: Re: @home speed/NT Speed Up Settings
Date: 1997/10/31
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