Whats the best MTU....

[SIRCOOKS]

just wanna know, whats the optimal mtu (maximum trasfer unit) that you guys who know what it is and does that ican set for windows xp home..also i saw this in another forum but i cant find the post anymore, isn't there something in windows start up that we can disable that takes up 1/4 of our bandwidth before we start anything..holla back

[Big POPPA Pump]

1) Are you using Cable or DSL. Use 1492 in case of DSL and 1500 for cable.

2) You must be talking about the 20% for QOS reserved bandwidth.
Start -> Run -> gpedit.msc -> Computer configuration -> Administrative templates -> Network -> Limit Reservable Bandwidth. Double Click on it, select enable and reduce % to 0.

[~*McoreD*~]

Also check this thread in the FAQ & Tutorial section.
http://www.betaone.net/forums/index....T&f=18&t=24043

[SIRCOOKS]

big poppa pump, that info you gave me doesn't work..any more suggestions people....

[Big POPPA Pump]

I dont see any reason why it should not work!

[DoG]

You missed the "QoS Packet Scheduler" selection step in your post

[Big POPPA Pump]

Quote:

Originally posted by DoG@May 25 2003, 05:31 PM
You missed the "QoS Packet Scheduler" selection step in your post

Oops!

Thanks for pointing that out!

[unicorn]

Then again this QoS-thing doesn't brake anything unless you are running QoS-enabled software under controlled conditions. For an ordinary homeuser the QoS brake does absolutely nothing.
Unless I am mistaken, something that happens all the time. I do remeber however several discussions on the topic some time after XP was released and back then it was very popular to disable QoS (yes, I did too) and almost everybody found no difference at all.