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Hodders · 17-11-2004, 07:19

In the last 3 or 4 weeks I've started to get strangeness with FTP transfers to a variety of sites (not NTL servers).

The transfer works fine for a random period (shortest 5 minutes to longest all day) and then I start getting connection timed out and lose the ability to FTP from that machine.

This happens from three seperate machines (all behind a Smoothwall doing NAT). Machines are running Win2k, WinXP and Linux.

After about 30 minutes the problem goes away until it happens again.

Rebooting the smoothwall router and/or the client in question makes no difference.

Has anyone else been getting issues of this type with NTL cable broadband ?

Someone in another forum mentioned that setting a lower MTU on the smoothwall outgoing interface might help ? Any opinions on this ?

17-11-2004, 07:19	#1
Hodders Inactive Join Date: May 2004 Posts: 18	FTP uploads intermittently fails on NTL Broadband In the last 3 or 4 weeks I've started to get strangeness with FTP transfers to a variety of sites (not NTL servers). The transfer works fine for a random period (shortest 5 minutes to longest all day) and then I start getting connection timed out and lose the ability to FTP from that machine. This happens from three seperate machines (all behind a Smoothwall doing NAT). Machines are running Win2k, WinXP and Linux. After about 30 minutes the problem goes away until it happens again. Rebooting the smoothwall router and/or the client in question makes no difference. Has anyone else been getting issues of this type with NTL cable broadband ? Someone in another forum mentioned that setting a lower MTU on the smoothwall outgoing interface might help ? Any opinions on this ?