Bandwidth Monitor

[SirDice]

An MTU of 1500 is "normal" for ethernet. Mind you, windows uses Path MTU discovery to set the MTU.

http://www.netheaven.com/pmtu.html

Unfortunately, increasing numbers of networks block all ICMP traffic (e.g. to prevent denial-of-service attacks), which prevents path MTU discovery from working. One often detects such blocking in the cases where a connection works for low-volume data but hangs as soon as a host sends a large block of data at a time

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximum_transmission_unit

[Spyrus]

Thanks guys... I am going to be attempting to start this project on saturday. Sounds like a good time for this weekend. I will start with upgrading the routers firmware and then looking at installing the nix box with the utilties you recommended PP. I will also take a look at the MTU rating.

In regards to my connection I am supposed to have 10MB down and 1.5-3 up but we all know how accurate the companies are at actually accomplishing that.