How to Speed up Your Home Network by Changing the MTU Size

In this video, we talk about MTU is, why you should consider changing the MTU size to get the most out of your home network, and I'll walk you through how to actually get it changed.

Command to test the packet size:
Ping www.homenetworkgeek.com -f -l 1500

Command to see all of the network interfaces and the current MTU size:
netsh interface ipv4 show subinterfaces

Command to change the MTU size:
(Replace "Ethernet" with your interface name and "1428" with the best MTU size you found)
netsh int ipv4 set subinterface “Ethernet” mtu=1428 store=persistent

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Contents of this video:
0:00 - Introduction
0:32 - What is MTU?
1:09 - When should you change the MTU size?
2:15 - How to find the best MTU size
4:15 - How to change the MTU size

About Chris:
Chris is an IT professional that setup HomeNetworkGeek.com and this YouTube Channel to share his knowledge on home networking. To learn more about him, visit: https://homenetworkgeek.com/about/N

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