How do i find the packetsize of a site?

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Coder X
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How do i find the packetsize of a site?

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Like if the game is on a site, how do i find its packet size.

i heard having the same mtu as the packetsize on the site or file your playing helps, how do i find a packetsize to a site?
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Post by cchooper »

What you are referring to is probably the MSS, or Maximum Segment Size (Segments are different from packets). The MSS is generally MTU (Max Transmission Unit) minus the size of all of the headers encapsulating the segment. In most cases, that's 1500 (default MTU for Ethernet) - 40 bytes (20 bytes for IP headers + 20 bytes for TCP headers) = 1460.

Setting your MSS to a value larger than this will result in fragmentation leading to poor performance. Check the tweak guides for more information about these settings.
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