Just a quick question someone here may be able to answer. I've read recently about the "speed trials" that various research institutes do in pushing large volumes of data across the Internet. They have to use standard equipment but I think they can fiddle the software. One of the things they do is change the packet size in TCP/IP, I think the term "jumbo packet" comes to mind. Is this something that "user on the street" can do in their network setup? Can you change the size of your packets and in turn the machine at the other end, the one you are up/downloading from, also configure itself so that the transfer is quicker, the premise being that if you use bigger packets, there is less overhead as there are fewer packets sent.
Any thoughts greatly appreciated,
Andrew
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