From: snuhwolf@yahoo.com   
      
   On Sat, 27 Sep 2008 20:15:40 -0400, Andreas Kohlbach aided th' terraists   
   with the following claims :   
      
   > §ñühwø£f wrote on 27. September 2008:   
   >>   
   >> On Fri, 26 Sep 2008 19:48:04 -0400   
   >> Andreas Kohlbach  broke the internets with:   
   >>   
   >>> §ñühwø£f wrote on 26. September 2008:   
   >>> >   
   >>> > I havent been able to login to webmail for hotmail or aol since making   
   the switch to DSL from dialup. The BeOS worked fine before running firefox.   
   >>> > Any ideas?   
   >>>   
   >>> It could be that BeOS default MTU is 1500 and some clueless ISPs block   
   >>> ICMP requests and thus the connection hangs.   
   >>>   
   >>> See if you can set the MTU (I don't know how but I guess there is a   
   >>> config file for DSL where you can tell it so) to 1492 or if that not   
   >>> works to 1442. You need to start a new connection after you did the   
   >>> changes.   
   >>   
   >> I read up on the comments section at bebits where that is the issue. I   
   downloaded a couple of patches to try as well.   
   >> Thanks :)   
   >   
   > That's not a patch issue. You just need to open the appropriate file   
   > (somewhere under /etc/ppp, at least what I recall it was similar to where   
   > Linux has the file) named "options" or something, search for the MTU   
   > entry and change (may be also remove a "#" if there is one at the   
   > beginning of the line) the setting. That's all. You have to go online   
   > again after that.   
      
   I replaced the net server with the patched version located on the Menlo   
   Park website and it works *perfectly*   
      
   Thanks to all who helped!   
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