MTU of the Internet?

Fri Feb 6 21:59:57 UTC 1998

tonyhain at microsoft.com wrote:
> This thread has drifted all over the place and the only conclusions I can
> see are:
> 
> The core infrastructure MTU is >= 1500
> People are telling clients to set their Win95 MTU to 576
> PMTU is randomly broken by clueless filtering
> Some dial-access devices are buffer limited
> A small MTU (53 byte?) would increase perceived response at the expense of
> performance
>
You missed:
  HTTP is a painful protocol. 

jzp