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Connection times out when accessing secure sites.

This seems to be a common issue. When accessing some secure sites, your connection may time out. The time outs are usually related to a high MTU (such as 1454).

To remedy this, set your MTU to either 1400 or 1438. This should not have too much of an effect on your connection's performance.

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by redxii
last modified: 2002-08-16 23:38:01

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Connection times out when accessing secure sites.