Changing The Mtu Size - NETGEAR WNR612v2 User Manual

To turn on Universal Plug and Play:
Select UPnP under Advanced the main menu. The UPnP screen displays.
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The available settings and information displayed in this screen are:
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Turn UPnP On. UPnP can be enabled or disabled for automatic device configuration.
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The default setting for UPnP is disabled. If this check box is not selected, the router
does not allow any device to automatically control the resources, such as port
forwarding (mapping) of the router.
Advertisement Period. The advertisement period is how often the router broadcasts
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its UPnP information. This value can range from 1 to 1440 minutes. The default period
is 30 minutes. Shorter durations ensure that control points have current device status
at the expense of additional network traffic. Longer durations might compromise the
freshness of the device status but can significantly reduce network traffic.
Advertisement Time To Live. The time to live for the advertisement is measured in
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hops (steps) for each UPnP packet sent. The time to live hop count is the number of
steps a broadcast packet is allowed to propagate for each UPnP advertisement
before it disappears. The number of hops can range from 1 to 255. The default value
for the advertisement time to live is 4 hops, which should be fine for most home
networks. If you notice that some devices are not being updated or reached correctly,
then it might be necessary to increase this value.
UPnP Portmap Table. The UPnP Portmap Table displays the IP address of each
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UPnP device that is currently accessing the router and which ports (Internal and
External) that device has opened. The UPnP Portmap Table also displays what type
of port is open and whether that port is still active for each IP address.
Click Apply to save your settings.
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Changing the MTU Size

The Maximum Transmission Unit (MTU) is the largest data packet a network device
transmits. When one network device communicates across the Internet with another, the data
packets travel through many devices along the way. If any device in the data path has a lower
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