Subject: Re: FTP slows to a crawl after 20k?

From: Keith Pilotti <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 04 Oct 1995 02:19:32 -0700

> Some of our users are complaining that FTP transfers occassionally slow
  > to a crawl, once the size of the file being transferred gets above 20k.

For users on a Windows platform, this problem can often be fixed by setting 
the MTU (Maximum Transfer Unit) in their IP stack/driver to 576.

Apparently, the default is too large for certain situations.   I don't know 
enough about Windows to explain why this is true.

+Keith

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