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Changing The Maxmtu For Faster Downloads

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Changing the MaxMTU for faster Downloads:

 There are four Internet settings that can be configured, you can get 
 greater throughput (faster Internet downloads) by modifying a few settings.
 
 They are the MaxMTU, MaxMSS and DefaultRcvWindow, and DefaultTTL 
 
 Windows 95
 
 1. Open RegEdit 
 2. Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlset\Services\Class\netTrans\000x 
 (where x is your particular network adapter binding.) 
 3. Right click on the right panel 
 4. Select New\String Value and create the value name MaxMTU 
 5. Double click on it and enter then the number you want. The usual change 
 is to 576 
 6. You can add MaxMSS and give it a value of 536 
 
 Windows 98
 
 1.Open RegEdit 
 2.Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlset\Services\Class\net\000x 
 (where x is your particular network adapter binding.) 
 3.Right click on the right panel 
 4.Select New\String Value and create the value name IPMTU 
 5.Double click on it and enter then the number you want. The usual change is 
 to 576 
 6.Similarly, you can add IPMSS and give it a value of 536 
 
 You can set DefaultRcvWindow, and DefaultTTL by adding these string values to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlset\Services\VXD\MSTCP
 Set the DefaultRcvWindow to"5840"and the DefaultTTL to "128"
 
 Note: These settings will slow down your network access speed slightly, but you 
 will probably not even see the difference if you are using a network card. If 
 you are using Direct Cable you should see a sight difference.
 

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