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| Jan 7 2011, 1:46 AM |
When using some devices with Sharedband you may need to lower the MTU on the WAN Port of your Firewall Device.
To do this on a DrayTEK 2820 Series router you need to login through Telnet. Telnet is on by default on the LAN side of the draytek.
Be careful changing things through telnet, you can stop your draytek from working. Its always best to backup the config before making any changes, that way if it goes wrong you can factory reset it and restore the config.
Once logged into the router it is WAN2 that the MTU needs to change on, to do this issue the following command:-
Some networks require a different MTU so it is always best to check what your current MTU is in the Sharedband Customer Portal.
To do this on a DrayTEK 2820 Series router you need to login through Telnet. Telnet is on by default on the LAN side of the draytek.
Be careful changing things through telnet, you can stop your draytek from working. Its always best to backup the config before making any changes, that way if it goes wrong you can factory reset it and restore the config.
Once logged into the router it is WAN2 that the MTU needs to change on, to do this issue the following command:-
>wan mtu2 xxxxxxxx is the MTU Value, this value needs to be 28 bytes lower than the Sharedband MTU, So with an MTU of 1492 on Sharedband this would need to be 1464.
Some networks require a different MTU so it is always best to check what your current MTU is in the Sharedband Customer Portal.