So you got yourself a new shiny wireless router, or a multi ethernet port router.
You connect, it works out of the box you can surf your webpages, on multiple computers or on wireless. You are happy.
But then small nagging problems creep in. Port forwarding is fine, but your torrents get no direct connection with message "NAT problem etc.,".
You cant go to windowsupdate too! You get these weird errors with various websites suggesting things like reinstalling the OS to Ouja boards.
You wonder what is wrong, is your router a dud? Fret not. Its a very very simple problem, with a simple solution.
MTU : Maximum line Transmission Unit.
Well you can google for detail, but here's why it is a problem. Western countries(the places where these sites are hosted) have good fast broadband networks. So the maximum legal MTU setting(Ethernet) of 1500 works for them. But not for us. The operators give a maximum MTU of at the most 1452, which is promptly set in our modems, but we forget about our OS and router!
So all you need to do is set an MTU of 1452 and all these problems(well most of them will vanish).
You connect, it works out of the box you can surf your webpages, on multiple computers or on wireless. You are happy.
But then small nagging problems creep in. Port forwarding is fine, but your torrents get no direct connection with message "NAT problem etc.,".
You cant go to windowsupdate too! You get these weird errors with various websites suggesting things like reinstalling the OS to Ouja boards.
You wonder what is wrong, is your router a dud? Fret not. Its a very very simple problem, with a simple solution.
MTU : Maximum line Transmission Unit.
Well you can google for detail, but here's why it is a problem. Western countries(the places where these sites are hosted) have good fast broadband networks. So the maximum legal MTU setting(Ethernet) of 1500 works for them. But not for us. The operators give a maximum MTU of at the most 1452, which is promptly set in our modems, but we forget about our OS and router!
So all you need to do is set an MTU of 1452 and all these problems(well most of them will vanish).