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Re: Monday, March 1, 2004
Try plugging in directly to the network, bypassing wireless, see if that makes a difference.
Try disabling/enabling WEP, see if that makes a difference.
look up the PING command reference for OS-X, and see what option is equivalent to the windows command
ping -f -l size mail_server_name
once you get past the MTU (usually near 1500), you should get back an error message like "Packet needs to be fragmented but DF set.", decreasing from there by a few bytes at a try, you might notice that certain length packets just never come back. If that's the case, then you can lower the MTU on the laptop to a value where they don't get lost anymore, take a small hit on network performance, but get reliabilty in return.
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