What is an MTU and why is it important?

I went into my router settings and enabled MTU and it's at 1500, but XBL says it's too low even though you only need 1300 or so...what else can I do?

*Everything else connects but my MTU *stay in mind i'm only using my modem *can u please type step by step *Can I buy another modem and use it for my xbox360 only?

hi we have dlink router in our home,to which there were four systems connected..the MTU settings is set to 1500MTU....please clarfiy what exactly is MTU for?.... per my understanding,its the maximum packets of information tranferred over the network...

Hi and thank you for responding! I am living in a school's residence with it's own internet network, so I just have to plug a ethernet cable in the wall to get high speed internet on my computer. But this doesn't work with my Xbox 360. When I try to...

My idea is to increase my computers throughput to my router. My router will then fragment the packets to a smaller size for more response for gaming. Will this work? What I've done is found the max MTU size without fragmentation. Tripled the size of...

I have just recently moved to this new house and I am still having trouble getting my Xbox to connect. I conduct a network test and it fails to connect to Xbox Live, and says that I have an invalid MTU setting. I have used Dr TCP, and have used "...

Your network’s maximum packet size (including headers):1518 Overhead of the Data Link layer header and trailer: Overhead of the IP header:20 bytes Overhead of an ICMP header in an Echo Request packet: Your network MTU: OK, this is the question...

Ok when i try and connect my xbox360 to the internet it says I am connected to the network> i am connected to the Internet > but cant connect to xboxlive since my router has insufficient mtu setting. Now ive gone onto My setting and changed the...