Windows ignoring MTU settings

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Someone on this thread previously said something to the effect of MTU settings not working on Windows. I didn't believe it, but now I do, having just encountered the same problem. The weird part was, the MTU setting was working on ICS client machines, but not on the ICS system where the modem was attached. Windows just kept ignoring the MTU setting I entered into the registry.

After wasting several hours, I eventually found this info & fix (seems Windows also ignores MTU negotiation ICMP packets sent by the network itself!): http://www.netmax.com/fom/cache/467.html (Under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters, create a DWORD value with the name "EnablePMTUDiscovery", and the value of "1".)

It had been working before so I don't know why it suddenly decided to stop working. In any case, it works now with the above fix, I hope that discovery only happens once per session though.
 
Don't worry about it... If you run Windows 2000 or XP, network settings are already quite optimized. I got 1.2 MB/sec right out of the box on my cable.

What you can do is change the maximum number of connections that Internet Explorer can use. I set it to 500 I think.... Things are really fast for me now.

<font color="blue"><b>The clock is ticking................... <i>1,174 kb/s</i> - I brake for no one</b></font id="blue">
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Actually, what I was saying is that the MTU settings in Win2K literally STOPPED WORKING, that is my connection BROKE. So the settings are definitely not always "optimized" properly because it used 1500 MTU no matter what I set it to, and I had to use that registry fix.
 
Read here if you are in need of a clue or are confused about MTU and PMTU

http://www.netheaven.com/pmtu.html

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Very funny Scotty. Now beam down my pants!!
 
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