Hello there
Ausatco
Thanks for the reply - that's the stuff I'm after !
I'm using a standard Dial Up through an ordinary "copper wire" phone line here in England. The line quality is probably not all that great but I’m stuck with it and refuse to pay BT £40 a month for a dual-line.
I've been using a site called
PCPitstop www.pcpitstop.com which has been instrumental in my understanding of these MTU/MSS/RWIN things. I must say, it is an outstanding dedicated site for the likes of us.
The diagnostics says my default RWIN of 2144 (I'm W98ME) is far too low. Your mention of 8192 does not figure in my set-up but as you say, "experiment" seems to be a recognised method of finding the right settings.
The packet size of 576 seems to be the OK setting for a kick-off though.
The Time To Live (TTL) setting they say for Win98 is 128 "and need not be changed". I'll believe them !!!
I had a look at another site
www.dslreports.com/tweaks/Registry that suggests an RWIN of
65535 "which is a value that without knowing more about your connection speed and typical ping time, is going to get you pretty close to the best speed you can get".
So I'm about to take the plunge and REGEDIT to that value.
Maybe before I do you could tell me more about this SSH and port forwarding business please.
Cheers,
TG