>>Have you installed the MTU registry patch that Pac Bell recommends? It speeded up my download speeds even more. I installed mtupatch98 for Windows 98, and it works great.
i found this tip on the ms site: the trouble is i could not locate "maxmtu" in my win98 registry. maybe it is because i am using ie5? also, i could not locate the mtupatch98 on the pacbell site.
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Speed Up Your Internet Connection in Six Steps
Go to Start, Run and type in "regedit".
When the Registry Editor pops up, click Edit and Find.
In the text area, type "MAXMTU". Then press Return.
When you find "MAXMTU", double click on it. A box should pop up with "1500" in it's "Value data" text area.
Change "1500" to "576", press OK, and then exit.
Reboot your computer and then, ta-da, your connection should be faster.
Why it works: There is a system setting in the Windows 98 Registry called MaxMTU. MTU stands for Maximum Transmission Unit. The MTU is the size of the chunk of data that travels from your PC through your modem and to the Internet. The Windows 98 default is 1500 character. This is fine for most large-scale corporate networks, but when you go to the Internet, the equipment responsible for routing your data to the correct destination uses an Internet Standard MTU of 576. That means that your data packet has to be broken down into smaller pieces and reassembled at the destination computer. The same is true of the response that is sent back to your PC. You actually spend more time assembling and disassembling packets than processing the data for display on your screen. The instructions I gave you adjusts the MTU to match the Internet standard, thus giving you a faster connection, as you do not need to break down the data packets.
This trick was submitted by Rob Forey.
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