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Windows XP Cannot See "Home" Share?
It was seeing it for awhile, then I re-booted the XP box and cannot see the Home share. Ditto a Windows 7 laptop. OTOH, the "Home" share is visible on my Android smart phone. Something with W...
Sandshark wrote: And the offender is: jumbo frames.
Can one perceive the added speed of Jumbo Frames or is it more of a theoretical thing?
i.e. Might it be worthwhile for me to adopt them?
I looked at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumbo_frame and it seemed to say they were not such a big deal now.... but I have no clue as to what they are talking about:
To Wit:
Obsolescence
By making CPU load independent of frame size, large segment offload (LSO) has eliminated the per-packet overhead that jumbo frames were designed to reduce.[9] Large receive offload (LRO), the inbound counterpart of large segment offload, does not quite eliminate per-packet overhead borne by the CPU, therefore jumbo frames remain beneficial for inbound traffic.
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