This info is somewhat misleading. Increasing your MTU will _NOT_ …

Tuesday, 19th March 2024

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This info is somewhat misleading. Increasing your MTU will _NOT_ give you any more bandwidth, 1Gbit is 1Gbit no matter what way you slice it. What it does do is decrease the packet traffic on your Network as you can now fit 9KB of data in a packet instead of 1.5KB of data, so less packets for the same amount of throughput. You only need to do “Jumbo Framing” (Anything over 1500 MTU) if your on a very chatty network and want to knock down packet traffic, you will not increase bandwidth in anyway, again 1Gbit is 1Gbit (or 10Mbit, 100Mbit, etc.).

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