[KLUG Members] Poor internet performance from Linux/Unix clients

[Adam Tauno Williams]

>There is a company that sells a Linux/Unix satelite receiver package
>(I forget the name) but it's rather expensive (more than the whole system

Helios

>cost me) and I have never found any Open Source options available on
>the> web. DirecPC only supports Windows and I'm not sure if any of the
>newer ones support anything else as well.
>The MTU/MRU are the settings that came to me as well and that's what i
>was kind of hoping someone might have some settings to try. I haven't
>got a clue and DirecPC I'm sure would be no help.

The MRU/MTU of an interface are stored in the Windows Registry.  Just do a
search for the string "mru."

On NT it is under

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Srvices\Adapter\Parameters\Tcpip

Attribute MTU,  I think is a REGWORD

<RANT>
Ahhhhh!  I'm glad Windows is sooooooooooooo user friendly.  I mean'  who'd want
to type "ifconfig".

On WinY2k there is an "ipconfig" command that I think can be coerced into
showing you the MTU,  that may work on NT4.0 as well.  

Of course,  I've killed dead an NT4 box dead by doing something crazy like
*changing* the MTU. Oh my!  I know that is a little radical of a thing to do,
but the "phone company" said to do it.
</RANT>