Re: Problems with some web sites (tuning?)

[Carl Johnson <carlj@peak.org>]

Carl Johnson <carlj@peak.org> writes:

> Jochen Schulz <ml@well-adjusted.de> writes:
>
>> Carl Johnson:
>>>
>>> I have been having access problems with some web sites for quite a
>>> while now, with wikipedia being one of the worst.  I can access the
>>> web site, but articles often freeze, especially large ones.  It will
>>> sometimes work for small articles, but large articles will almost
>>> never completely load, so it is largely useless.  Is there some
>>> network tuning that can be done to improve the situation?
>>
>> What's the MTU of your ppp0 device (or on your router, if you are using
>> one)?
>
> My config file for ppp sets it to 552.

Jochen replied off-list and suggested I set the MTU to something like
1400.  I tried that, as well as the default of 1500, and neither
seemed to make any difference.  In all cases long wikipedia articles
usually either arrive truncated or timeout before completion.  Also,
in reply to another question from him, the link had actually been
using an MTU of 552 previously.

Thanks for any suggestions so far, but I still don't have a solution.
-- 
Carl Johnson		carlj@peak.org