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Old 22nd May 2011, 22:25
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Mike-Bracknell
 
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Originally Posted by BOAC
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1) was where I saw the increase

Why would 2) and 3) change simply with a hike in delivered speed?
A hike in delivered speed could be related to the move of your connection to a different piece of network hardware, which may be not so well configured as the ISP would like. Hence mandating a 'known good' set of DNS servers used on t'internet may help with speed of name resolution (and hence perceived speed of page delivery).

Also, some client firewalls embed the internet IP address within themselves, denying access to services when you appear not to be located 'at home' - this may be another reason for the slowdown.

Originally Posted by BOAC
Should I need to change other settings like MTU just because the speed has gone up?
The MTU should hardly ever need changing unless you're on a hokeycokey ISP (like TalkTalk). All it defines is the maximum packet size before fragmentation, and as such if the ISP's doing their job right (and has deployed good network hardware) then the MTU should be defined by the link and/or be of a size delivered to the end-user such that it should need no fiddling.
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