From: "Geo" 

"Mike N."  wrote in message
news:f3sjc2tqusim6pheah64pu71k83b7atao9{at}4ax.com...

>    I'm connected via a Linksys router, then IPoA DSL.   I measure a
maximum
> packet size of 1514 all the way from either Windows or Linux to
> news.barkto.com.

How are you measuring that? MTU as far as I know is 1500 coming across the
lines from cleveland to macedonia where the news server is hosted.

Try setting MTU in your router to either 1500 or 1492 and see if you still
see this problem.

Geo.

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