[drakester]

well basically aol doesnt support high speed access such as dsl, so i have to log in using mac ppoe thing which works fine except i dont get the speed im supposed to. The tutorial tells me to open a terminal and open some network file and add some line which changes the mtu to 1400.
well my question is how do i change my mtu to 1400, i dont understand what this other tutorial is asking me to do. thanks in advance

[Millennium]

Do you have a link to this tutorial? We can help explain it, but we need to know what it's telling you to do.

[Kenneth]

In Panther, it allows you to set the MTU manually in the System Preference.

Network->Built-in Ethernet->Ethernet tab->Configure: Manual (Advanced).

[msuper69]

I don't see why you have to go to all that trouble just to use AOL with OS X and DSL. If you have a working connection to the Internet (email and web surfing working w/o AOL), then just specify a "bring your own access" connection in the AOL client. It's been a while since I used AOL but there was a way to just connect using your existing Internet provider.

I've just installed the AOL for OS X client and you can specify a TCP connection using DSL.

Where did you get this need to run commands in the Terminal?

Something is awry here.

[drakester]

thanks, yeah i have panther so it was a breeze to changed the mtu...i got it off the aol website, i called up aol and said that the aol high speed software wasnt compatible with mac but they said i can log in using ppoe and the gave me some site to go and thats where the tutorial was located, i followed all the insturctions and got it up and running but was confused about the mtu part but kenneth helped me out, appreciate it

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