On 12/28/05, Christos Zoulas <christos@astron.com> wrote:

> I get 2.0 - 2.9 Kbytes with my:
>
> com0 at pcmcia0 function 1: <3Com Corporation, 3C562D/3C563D, EtherLink I=
II, LAN+Modem PC Card>
>
> I see frequent stalls too, but the average transmission rate seems fine.
> I do set my mtu to 296 (since I am not using ipv6).

Does that really help?  I heard people swear by different mtu settings
and I couldn't tell the difference, but I haven't tried in a while.
 However isn't it the mru that would matter for downloads?