-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Sunday, March 30, 2003 8:58:59 AM (GMT -05:00) RE: "Outgoing Messages Not Going Out"
Greetings Chris, On Thursday, March 27, 2003, 4:11:10 PM, you wrote: CM> I realize that occasional network slowdowns might cause connection CM> problems, but this seems to be happening much too frequently on my DSL CM> connection. Are there any settings I can check to troubleshoot the CM> problem? Go here and download DrTCP for your specified OS http://www.broadbandreports.com/front/drtcp.html . It needs no installation and can be run just by clicking on the executable. Set the TCP Receive Window to 32767. On the bottom of the screen you will notice an Adapter Settings section that has a drop down box to select your adapter. I am going to guess you are running a network interface card. Select this adapter and in the MTU box enter the value of 1492 (PPPoE connections require this as is has an 8 bit overhead and cannot be set to 1500 which is what all Windows OS's default too except WinXP which should default to 1492 if the Network setup is utilizing the built-in PPPoE). Hit SAVE and EXIT and restart your system. Further, if you are utilizing a hardware router it should have a setup option to select your MTU. Set this to 1492 as well. Indications of too high a MTU setting will manifest themselves by an inability to send mail and corrupt file attachments with e-mail or through a chat medium such as ICQ, Yahoo and AIM. Anyway .. You can further go to http://www.broadbandreports.com/tweaks (after you have saved your settings under DrTCP and rebooted your system) and run the test and see what it reports. Hope this helps and, again, a PPPoE (Point To Point Protocol over Ethernet) setup requires a MTU setting of 1492 to allow for the 8 bit overhead (1492+8=1500(max MTU)) versus PPPoA (Point To Point Protocol over ATM) which does have this limitation. - -- Regards, DG Raftery Sr. The probability of someone watching you is proportional to the stupidity of your action. The_Bat! 1.63 Beta/7 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP for Business Security 6.0 Comment: http://home.nycap.rr.com/rafteryfamily/DG_Raftery_Sr..asc iQA/AwUBPob8WzaPwvRMcz9cEQLwuwCg3koUpbhuAEjlP5v6YUg+EzX/X40An1+c 2pzY+/zHZ274GnXZ0jb8pmIm =2BpB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.62 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
