Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Curious Network Issue

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Author: Sean Gibbins
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To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Curious Network Issue
Peter Salisbury wrote:
>
> I did have similarly transient problems with a wifi connection. In the
> end I sorted it by cutting down the max size of transmitted packets
> at the router end of the connection. It turned out to be a driver
> problem which was fixed by an update but it may help in your case. It
> does slow down the connection a bit. On my router (Edimax) the
> setting is called 'Fragmentation threshold' which is the size at
> which packets are split up for transmission.
>
> HTH, Peter


I'll take a look Peter. It'd be a shame to take the speed of the whole
lot down for the sake of a Dell card, but it would be interesting to see
if that is the root cause, if nothing else.

Cheers,

Sean