Optimize Your Router's MTU Setting for Faster Internet Speeds

what's going on guys welcome back to the channel i'm mike this is the ultimate tech hub thank you so much for joining us i really appreciate it so we get a lot of questions from viewers and subscribers and most the questions are how to increase internet speed they often ask is there a magic cable or a magic setting that can increase your internet speed and regarding cables i always say use cat6a to get maximum speed and bandwidth but as far as a magic setting there is one setting you can change that can make a difference and this setting is your wireless router i've gone over this setting before in a video right here home network basics for beginners so make sure to check that out later it's a great video but the setting i'm referring to is the mtu setting so first let's go into the router and take a look at the mtu setting i'll explain what it is and i'm going to show you how to change those settings to maximize your internet speed and trust me this does work so let's get started all right first thing you want to do is go into your router settings if you're not sure how to do this then check out this video now go to connectivity and internet settings and here's the mtu setting my mtu is set at 1470 and there's two options with the mtu setting there's manual and there's auto and to optimize your mtv setting it needs to be manual and before we change the mtu setting let's talk about what it is and how to get the correct mtu size for your devices then we can go back in the router and change it so what does mtu stand for it stands for maximum transmission unit this represents the largest data packet that your network device will accept and mtu is measured in bytes and 1500 bytes is the maximum mtu size so any packet over 1500 bytes will get fragmented into smaller segments in fragmentation adds a small degree of latency and inefficiency to network communications so this should be avoided if possible so by dialing in this number correctly we're going to get the largest data packet possible for our network device so the question is how do we determine the correct mtu size well let me show you so now on your computer go to command prompt we're going to do a ping test for this example we'll ping yahoo so type in ping space yahoo.com space minus f space minus l and type in 2000 and we immediately get a message packets need to be fragmented and since any number over 1500 bytes will get fragmented let's start our test at 1440 and we're getting replies with no fragments so now type in 1480 and packets are fragmented at 14.80 now let's go ahead and try 14.70 and we're getting all replies no fragments now let's try 1475 and packets need to be fragmented now let's try 1472 and we're getting replies no fragments and now let's go ahead and try 1473 and packets need to be fragmented so we found our sweet spot we found the largest number possible without fragmentation 1472 and one more thing you should be aware of the tcp and ip headers make up a total of 28 bytes so 1472 plus 28 is what you guessed it 1500 so now let's go back to the router and set our mtu setting so go back to internet settings change mtu from auto to manual and type in your number and then hit apply and there's a good possibility that your number could be 1470 or 1465 or it could be the same as mine but just know one thing by maximizing your mtu setting you're going to get the largest data packets possible which prevents latency and inefficiency thus making the internet faster and faster internet is more better so if you want faster speeds and you haven't changed your mtu settings then follow my steps to get the perfect mtu size and i'm going to give you one more bonus tip get yourself a cast 6a cable and connect it from the modem to your router cat6a provides high speeds and high bandwidth and cat6a can handle up to 10 gig so this cable guarantees the fastest connection so guys if you like this video and you found it helpful make sure to give a thumbs up and share it and if you love networking like i love networking then check out all our videos on our channel we currently have over 60 videos just on networking alone and once again i want to thank you for watching you guys are awesome and we'll see you in the next video real soon peace