oh no! fitted w/less b/band and no hotmail!

jamescredmond

hi, recently fitted a belkin g router and can now access everything - except msn/hotmail.com. AAAAARRRRGGHH! can anyone help????

many thanks.

vyseyboy

This link outlines the problem. It's quite common.

Put basically, you'll have to somehow log in to your new wireless router's configuration page (read the manual to find out how!) then look for a setting called "MTU size" or similar.

By default, it's usually 1500 or 1492.

Try reducing it by 8 at a time, saving the settings and trying hotmail until it works.

edit - apparently as well as doing this, you have to reduce a setting in Windows (if you are using windows...) too, so that this setting and the router setting are the same, (and both lower than they were before.)

Sorry I can't be clearer, I remember having to fix this myself, but only really have a vague recollection of the problem.

Try googling hotmail mtu or hotmail mtu xp