On Sun, 3 Apr 2005, Andrew Lowe wrote: > 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.
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