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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...
Here's the deal:
Jumbo frames don't improve the network itself. In fact, smaller frames provide better latency and the overhead savings on gigabit ethernet are inconsequential. But using bigger packets can reduce the CPU load in the client devices. This can increase throughput especially in older PCs or NIC cards.
However, they are non-standard, and are limited to wired ethernet exclusively (they don't go over wifi or your internet connection). Often they create problems when you try to use them.
So if you want to try them, it is important that you measure the throughput with and without, since they don't always improve performance.
And if you run into strangeness on your network (as happened here) you would need to turn them off.
Personally I decided not to bother, the potential increase in throughput was not worth it.
Jumbo frames don't improve the network itself. In fact, smaller frames provide better latency and the overhead savings on gigabit ethernet are inconsequential. But using bigger packets can reduce the CPU load in the client devices. This can increase throughput especially in older PCs or NIC cards.
However, they are non-standard, and are limited to wired ethernet exclusively (they don't go over wifi or your internet connection). Often they create problems when you try to use them.
So if you want to try them, it is important that you measure the throughput with and without, since they don't always improve performance.
And if you run into strangeness on your network (as happened here) you would need to turn them off.
Personally I decided not to bother, the potential increase in throughput was not worth it.
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