How to get Faster Internet speed when you change a simple setting

how do you go from this to this by simply changing one settings that's what i'm going to show you today let's do this [Music] and welcome to another episode of talking tech with the techie guy my name is leron segev where i make tech simple if you're into phones gadget apps tips and tricks on how to hit that subscribe button and let's get on to today's show so you've gone grocery shopping and you've come home and there are loads of items all which need to be carried inside which would you rather do carry each item individually or stick them into a carrier bag well most of us will prefer fewer trips to and from the cars so loads of item in a carrier bag is faster and more efficient the only thing we need to really worry about is overloading the bag as things will fall out and basically we would have to make more trips again this is how our computers work too but some data are sent and received and together they make up whatever it is we happen to be doing online most of us get our computer simply connected to the router and modem open a website internet seems to be loading so it's all working sure technically it's working but it's not optimized it's like making those separate trips to and from the car to get each item individually versus using the bag so how do we make our computers as efficient as carrying items in a bag well we do that by telling our computers to pack loads of data into a big bag and make fewer trips and we do that by increasing the size of the mtu the maximum transmission unit this is done in two steps step number one is to find out what is the maximum data packet our computer can handle as we don't want to overfill our data packet if we do just like the carrier bag the items are gonna drop out in other words data's gonna drop out and it's gonna require more trips once we have that we move on to step number two which is to tell a computer hey use this as the mtu size don't worry both of these steps are super simple and i'm going to show you exactly how to do that right let's start off with a baseline so first i'm going to show you that my ethernet is currently set to 576 mtu so based on that let's run the good old speed test what are we gonna get on that ping nine milliseconds that's pretty good the download speed is 140 150 megabits per second bear in mind i'm on a 450 megabits per second line and what's the upload 16.73 my upload cap is at 20. so clearly i'm not getting the speed that i'm paying for so let's begin the test to see how i can optimize my system all right so step number one how do you find out what is the right mtu size for you and your computer as all our computers are going to be slightly different well we're going to do that using the good old ping command the thing command is basically just says to your website hey website are you there please reply with your ip address so ping google.com and google replies with its ip address but what we're going to do is use that command to send the biggest ping and either one of two things will happen either one will get a message back from the website saying everything is good or we'll get a message back saying uh the data is fragmented which means whoops too much data in our bag and we'll have to try a smaller ping until it works let me show you how to do this okay fire up your computer type in cmd in the search right click on that and then choose run as administrator what we're gonna do now is type ping google.com minus f which essentially means don't fragment the packet size and then we're going to say minus l and put a byte size but that is the maximum path size our big packet that we're going to send through and essentially what we're looking for is this fragmented in other words hundred percent loss this is the packet is just way too big a system is not handling it what do we do we reduce it by ten one four eight two instead of one four nine two are we still getting the error message yes we are reduce it by 10 again 1472. oh look at this now we're getting a response which means this is the big packet size it's not fragmented and zero percent loss this is a winner let's see if we can get it any bigger and now we're gonna increase it by increments of one one four seven three and now we can see all fragmented again so now we know on this system one four seven two is the maximum packet size the maximum bag carrier bag that we were speaking about earlier before the packet starts getting fragmented so what's next what we do fire up a calculator take one four seven two and then you have to add 28 so whatever your number is add 28 to that and that's gonna give you the mtu size that you can use right now onto step number two now that we have the right size of the mtu well the next step is to tell our system to actually use it ideally you should set this at your router level so that everything on your network can use this mtu i say ideally as some routers don't have that facility now if your router doesn't have that don't worry i'm also going to show you how to manually set this on your computer let's start with the router option to set it on your router first you have to access the rafters admin console typically this info is listed on the bottom of your router and it's how you set up your router in the first place now if you don't have that info here is what you can do okay let's get you into your router so type cmd again this time you don't have to right click you can just open it and type ip config and what we're looking for is something called the default gateway and they'll have an ip address 192.168.1.1 now of course yours might be slightly different so whatever your gateway ip address make a note of that because we're going to need it for the next step open your web browser type in the ip address that you got your default gateway and that should take you to the router login and what you're looking for somewhere deep within your settings is the ability to manually set the mtu see how mine says auto i'm going to switch it to manual and there we go that 1500 that we spoke about earlier i'm going to put that in there and then click on apply now everything that's connected through my router is going to get that setting now if your router doesn't have this feature anywhere let me show you how you can set it on your computer and yes you're gonna have to do this on each computer on your network if your router doesn't have that settings in your windows go to the search type cmd right click on that command prompt and click on run as administrator now in the description you'll see this particular line and remember change the mtu to whatever mtu size that works on your system and then press enter and it will give you this little okay you can also use this command to actually show you that it actually worked so there is my ethernet and then as you can see on the left hand side there is 1500 which means i've just updated the mtu to 1500 now let's assume you don't have ethernet or you want to update your wi-fi as well no problem it's the same line as before the only thing we're going to do is we're going to change instead of ethernet we're going to use the word wi-fi and the mtu we're going gonna set it at 1500 press enter to get the ok run that command to see if everything has been changed and there it is wi-fi is now set at 1500. simple stuff now all that remains to do is a final speed test to see how much difference this mtu can make already we can see a clear difference look at that the download is now sitting at 459 megabits per second as a download the upload is a very healthy over 20 megabits per second there is your proof mtu does make a difference go and optimize your system just another tip to get you and your wi-fi internet faster and better if you want more videos check out these videos down here on this topic hit the head below to subscribe if this is your first time here give the video a thumbs up if you liked it and i'll see you in those videos let's go

Channel: Liron Segev

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Id: RK2PHpKI9M4

Length: 8min 22sec (502 seconds)

Published: Mon Nov 30 2020