I recently relocated to Las Vegas, where Sprint/Earthlink is the dominant 
local provider of residential DSL services.

I'm connecting to Sprint's DSL modem (which is now set to pass IP packets 
through, rather than route them) via a D-Link DI-614+ router running 3.20 
firmware. My computer is using the D-Link DWL-520+ PCI adapter. The Sprint 
connection is via PPPoE.

When I first set the system up, I could hardly connect at all. A little 
digging through the D-Link documentation led me to experiment with reducing 
the MTU and that improved things considerably. I'm now down to a 1200-bit MTU 
and I connect OK much of the time, but I still have problems with my browser 
and email clients too often being unable to resolve hostnames without 
multiple attempts, even though my workstation is configured to query Sprint 
DNS servers directly.

Has anyone hit on a magic number for the MTU setting that will enable my 
workstations reliably to resolve DNS queries on their first attempt, or is 
this a problem with which I'm just going to have to live?

Regards,

Thom Stark

"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans."
- John Lennon
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