MTU settings

[babyalien]

anyone know what these are supposed to be? In the router setup as a guide it says 1500 or 1492, and to only choose lower if the ISP has instructed to do so. I also curious if these are different with adsl2+ or not.

Either way i have mine at 1492, but i can't remember if i changed it, i fiddled with just about everything in there at one point or another

[Fastethernet]

Krapoo guide lines recommend 1500 and it is more efficient to match their maximum MTU that way you get more data per frame/packet. Make sure your PC's match the routers MTU as you could introduce extra overhead if there is a mismatch. You can check your PC's MTU with this little app http://www.dslreports.com/drtcp Dr TCP 

[babyalien]

wow thx, i scored an extra 85kbps downstream since making that small change.

Maidenhead seems stressed at the moment, frankfurt scores higher by around 3000