Speed up a slow ADSL connection in 10.1

Oct 17, '01 01:57:10AM

Contributed by: gb

I have had difficulty with my ADSL connection using Telstra in Australia with 10.1. It worked fine on 10.0.4 and still on my WinTel box.

The link establishes correctly (ping etc. work) but mail and web traffic are terribly slow. I contacted Apple and they know the problem and are working on a proper fix. Their interim fix is to enter the following at the command line after you have connected.

sudo ifconfig ppp0 mtu 1492
It is also suggested that you may have to make the last number lower, I have set it to 1000. I believe this is the maximum packet size.

Where does the system keep the ppp configuration information so it can be modifed once and for all? Perhaps someone can further explain what is going on.

Gavin.

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