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Re: [Other] MTU quandry! Thanks. That points me in the right direction. I guess your advice would be to set our routers to "Auto" and to leave our PCs at the default settings. For those that have already been manually set, will using DrTCP and deleting the MTU value essentially reset them to dynamically adjusting?
In your last paragraph you mentioned cabling issues and making sure there are no collisions. You don't mean the physical cables do you? I am guessing that this is beyond the scope of this forum, but is there a good place I could look to help me sort it out?
This may indeed be the problem because we have a Linksys WAP/4-port router at one end of the office connected to a Linksys 8-port switch at the other end of the office with a cat-5 cable. All the ports on each device are full. Things seem to work well most of the time, but the network freezes occasionally for 30 to 60 seconds. Sometimes we power cycle the WAP which gets things going again.
Any ideas?
Thanks again!
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| wow, great information... you see the 8 port switch should not see any collisions as they are full duplex(you have mentione that above) but the WAP uses a 4 port HUB... this is the reason why sometimes on a busy day broadcasts from multiple PCs can Freeze the network... to improve the situation is to add a switch and plug all the devices attached to the WAP hub on to the switch than by connecting the switch to the WAP will give you a smoother network reliability...
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| Yes, that made perfect sense. I would gladly buy a switch in hopes of fixing the problem. Unfortunately when I took another look at the router it turned that it is a switch after all. I guess there is no magic bullet for us, but thanks for your help!
Steve |
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