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Permanent mtu adjustment
Authored by: Alan Nursall on Mar 23, '02 09:37:57AM

Hallelujah! I have spent six months trying to get all my Macs at home to connect properly over DSL. I have no problem through the network at work.

At home, I was connected, assigned an IP address, and could ping other sites. But I could not make a browser or mail application actually do anything. The only site I could get any sort of access to was apple.com, and even then it was only the text. Images would not load. Couldn't even load a simple page like Google. It was like there was some sort of severe constriction in the pipeline. I used the advice from the message above and it worked!!

After experimenting with Ping, i set the mtu value at 1450 (1492 was too high and no packets were returned). For me anyway, this was ths solution after 6 months of struggle and swearing.

THANK YOU from Sudbury, Ontario!!!!



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