[Coco] A WARNING about Windows 10 Updates...

[Steven Hirsch]

On Tue, 11 Jul 2017, Joe Schutts via Coco wrote:

> I've been a faithful Windows user since Windows 3.0 and before that DOS 
> 3.0. I just discovered a FLAW or BUG in their UPDATE Process and I 
> wanted to warn EVERY Windows 10 User out there about it before it ruins 
> their day. If you're like me I tweak EVERY setting for optimum setting 
> (making everything run faster), the only thing I DO NOT tweak is the 
> Clock Speeds of my CPU, I just buy the fastest CPU out there available. 
> Recently I had an update preformed and I noticed that my Ethernet 
> Adapter seemed to be running much slower than normal. I then went into 
> the Device Manager and checked out the settings. I found out the the 
> JUMBO FRAMES on all my Ethernet Adapters had all been changed from 9KB 
> MTU to a new setting of DISABLED (and therefore slowing down all my 
> Ethernet Adapters). I have yet to check out my other settings and am in 
> the process of doing so now. My advice is for everyone to check out 
> their settings to see IF anything has been changed in any negative way. 
> Why MicroSoft did this (or even IF they are aware of this, I do not 
> know. But it is something to be aware of and check out for yourselves.

Is it possible that at some point you were connected to a router or other 
device that didn't support 9k frames?


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