Just got talktalk LLU, poor uploads fixed by MTU

Hi;

Just this morning got LLU talktalk broadband (phone and broadband went on at the same time as far as I can tell).

Web downloads at 800KBytes /sec (cool).
Uploads to anywhere at <2Kbytes / sec (except my work VPN, strangely enough)

This is with the Huawei wireless Echolife router that they supply for 20quid. I knew it wasn't a router issue as it was working perfectly yesterday on Zen.

So read the FAQ's.
On the Router TCP MSS set to 1400, MTU set to 0 (use default).
Can't change MTU to 1432 because of TCP MSS set to 1400. So set TCP MSS to 0 (use default) and set MTU to 1432.

Now uploading fine at 30KBytes / sec.
Here are my speedchecker results now (wouldn't even complete before!)
http://www.thinkbroadband.com/speedtest/results/id/11873346808769837070.html

Really annoying though that talktalk have gone to the effort to load a talktalk SSID in the router (and the version says TT, so I guess they've had a firmware made for them) yet haven't bothered to set the correct values for their critical network stuff!

Is this a sneaky ploy to keep their upload bandwidth down to a minimum? Many many users probably would never notice as long as downloads are snappy...

james

Edited by webbed (Fri 17-Aug-07 08:14:15)