Charles Buckley wrote:
But as far as the problem of the original poster is concerned, it would seem that somebody out there at Cablecom or elsewhere in the CH backhaul world is running around reconfiguring things in the middle of the data pipe with a lower MTU, which means that we at the endpoints have to follow suit. Probably they got a memo from some boss, believed it without thinking, and are just "doing their job."
According to Chris' post, it was not a deliberated action but a misconfiguration of a replaced equipment.
Unfortunately, simply going along with the program and reducing your router's MTU limit is probably easier than figuring out for what misguided reason this practice was adopted.
Yes, but it is still a dirty hack nonetheless.