Jumbo frames are intended to speed large data transfers. Ethernet specifies a certain frame size – 1,518 bytes – and that requires that large files be chopped up into chunks of that size, with all the ...

Gateway devices like firewalls and routers have queues and have to mess with varying MTUs and frame sizes and stuff anyway so it doesn't really matter there. If you have a router with a WAN link and ...

O.k. a question regarding jumbo frames (or for that matter regular ethernet frame sizes) and how they relate to DSL frame sizes. I know jumbo frames have an MTU > 9000 and regular ethernet is about ...

Some companies operate finely tuned environments with network packets humming along at a disciplined pace; others operate at a halting cadence on shared media and cabling from the first Bush ...