Increase Internet Connection Speed with MTU Registry Modifications

Writing this time was about tricks internet connection, only to trick this time using the software. To be able to help improve the Internet connection speed, this time we will make modifications to the registry, about the same pace with the registry modification I have ever informed.

To trick this time will dimofikasi registry that is part of MTU (Maximum Transfer Unit). By default Windows, the value of MTU is 1500 bytes, whereas the real value of the package for the internet is 1000 bytes. Greater value is not that much faster, sometimes the opposite can be made more slowly, for that we must adjust the real value of the existing default.

The steps to adjust the MTU is as follows.

We went into the Registry Editor, for which not know how, please click Start, then select Run, then type regedit. Once entered into the Registry Editor, before you start, be worthwhile to backup first (File menu, and select Export, select where we will keep it, and name the file, this file we use when we want to restore, by selecting Import) . Next please go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ System \ CurrentControlSet \ Services \ Class \ NetTrans, NetTrans in this folder we will find some other folders with a 000x (x are here representing the four digits of the folder name).

Next we see the contents of each folder, if in it there is no key MaxMTU (left column), please create a new key by right-clicking the mouse on the 000x folder, then select New, String Value and name the key to MaxMTU .

If the key has been created, or the key already exists, then we edit the value of the key by right clicking on MaxMTU key and select Modify.

Change the Value data to 1002 (before change option Base with decimal), as well as the value of MaxMTU other 000x folder, we replace it with 1002.

If we have saved by pressing Ok.

To this end MTU Registry modification process is complete, and we can try to change.

Good luck and I hope useful.

How to Fix the Xbox 360 “MTU Too Low” Problem with the Qwest Actiontec Q1000 DSL Modem

NOTE: If you are coming to this article after Googling the subject in frustration, here’s the quick-fix for you: Upgrade the modem’s firmware to QAQ01-31.00L.33 or later and you should be fine.

Qwest has been rolling their new high-speed fiber-optic DSL service out throughout Denver and Arizona for the last year or so (it’s not fiber-to-the-house, but with 40mbps available, who cares?). I’ve been a happy Qwest DSL client for about 3 years now — no complaints and more importantly — no outages.

When the fiber service started rolling out with speeds of 12mbps and 20mbps offered, I would reflexively crap my pants and throw myself into jealous rages because it wasn’t available in my area — that all changed last week.

Not only has Qwest rolled out fiber in my area, they also rolled out a new 40mbps/20mbps service as well for $115/mo — that doesn’t have any bearing on this post, it’s just awesome.

Anyway, I ordered the 20mbps/5mbps service which required an upgrade to the Actiontec Q1000 Qwest-branded modem. This is a Gigabit-capable 4-port modem with Wireless-N capabilities — I’ve had Actiontec equipment in the past from Qwest and it was garbage — replaced within months by 2wire which worked much better. Fortunately after a week with this Q1000 it looks like Actiontec may have cleaned some things up, the modem works fine with some basic firewall, port forwarding and advanced routing rules — this was something the older Actiontec modem that Qwest was selling couldn’t no — no joke, it literally couldn’t employ port forwarding rules AND the firewall at the same time — fail.

Anyway, after getting the Q1000 setup and the service enabled, I hooked my Xbox 360 via a WAP (I’ll give a review of later) and when I tried to get the Xbox online, I would get an error similar to the following:

Unable to connect to Xbox live, the MTU setting of your router is less than 1365 and must be increased. Please fix the problem and try again.

There is literally no MTU setting anywhere on the Q1000 — and reading through some other threads online, folks had suggestions ranging from disabling uPnP all the way to manually changing the MTU settings on your Windows machine (yea, I have no idea how they thought that would help).

As the threads went on, more and more folks said upgrading the firmware did the trick for them and magically the Xbox 360 started working again without any problems.

This sounded easy enough, but believe it or not, I was actually confused by the Upgrade Firmware screen on the Q1000 — on the older 2wire I had, there was a button that I clicked that would check the firmware against the remotely available version and then upgrade it if available — it also automatically upgraded itself constantly too (which got annoying after a while).

On the Q1000, there is simply a Download button and you end up with a file that has no identifying name or type, just firmware.

Believe it or not, this s all fine — and it worked great. So I’ll give you the instructions on how to update your firmware incase you are bamboozled by this — and get your Xbox 360 back online:

1. Go to 192.168.0.1 (or whatever IP address you gave your modem)
2. Login to your modem — I believe the default credentials are “admin” or “admin”/”admin” or just try password “admin” — it’s one of those.
3. Go to Utilities
4. Click Upgrade Firmware in the left menu
5. Click the Download button in section #1 — you will likely be prompted to safe a file named “firmware”, save it anywhere on your local computer.
6. Now scroll down to section #2, and click the Browse button and select that “firmware” file you saved.
7. Now scroll down to section #3, and click the Upgrade Firmware button, this will upload the file you just saved and apply it then restart the modem

And you should be all set. Let us know if you run into any problems. Happy gaming!

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