Re: Why packets (from my ISP to me) on the WAN VC side of my router are twice the size of packets on the Ethernet (and a corresponding twice as many bytes)

[rhkramer@gmail.com]

On Thursday, February 09, 2017 07:21:58 AM Dan Purgert wrote:
> rhkramer@gmail.com wrote:
> > I noticed today that those statistics pages do tell me the size of the
> > MTUs
> > 
> > On the:       MTU is:
> > WAN VC        1540
> > Ethernet      1500
> 
> Yuck.  Hate it when people start mucking around with MTUs ...

If somebody was mucking about with MTUs it tweren't me.  I'm guessing those 
are set in the modem, and Earthlink provided the modem--maybe they changed 
something.  (And maybe they are who I should ask about the twice as many bytes 
issue--but I guess I have to be ready to deal with the support people in 
India--IIRC from last time, I can insist on speaking to a native English 
speaker....)

I'm fighting a headache again, and have to shovel some snow this morning, I'll 
try to reply to your outer post sometime later in the day.