Jenn Vesperman wrote: > Have your own computers. Have your own computer desks. Build a LAN, > know how to maintain it, and let the router split the packets. Have a > router - use the 486 you bought from your cousin's friend who's had it > on a shelf for years. Keep the MTU reasonably down, so that if your > partner's doing a large download your chat packets go out promptly > anyway. Learn what MTU means, and how to set it. Okay, time to learn. What's a MTU (max trasfer unit - wild guess!) and how do I set it and what does it do? bekj -- : Bekj - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://tertius.net.au/~gossamer/ : There is never no hope left. : -- Louis Wu, 'The Ringworld Engineers' _______________________________________________ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
