What should MTU value be?

What should my Nintendo Switch MTU be?

Well, for me, I'm a very "big" gamer, but also very active so I need somewhere around 500MB-1GB, more if possible.

At my place, it's usually pretty high all day/evening, to around 4G. But some days, around noon it was less than 100KB so I had to reboot or restart to get the games to be playable again. This makes the switch get hot, which is normal from a high activity PC but it got my "piss off" each time because it was just in the wrong place.

I went through this and then ended up doing a DIY project that solved my low speed issue(I actually have a 4tb drive to back my system up on.), but now my "problem" isn't much larger. But now I end up having an OS that freezes randomly about 15 times a day. Like at 2 am I'll wake up and be like "what?" and nothing but frozen apps.

Do I need another 1TB hard drive? What can I get that's compatible that won't have any problems? Because I don't really want to buy any "unsuitable" things just to be sure. Is it ok if I get everything at the same time? And how should I buy them because I'm not good at ordering stuff online?(I don't know where to put "2 TB", "1 TB" or "4 TB", so what's this one "2.5 Inches hard drive" or is it "3 TB"? Should I buy 2GB or 4GB of RAM? It's like a thousand questions so would love some help here.)

Is this the right place to ask for help? If so, sorry I'm not really sure how to ask this.

What is the MTU of a Switch?

With the recent release of the new R1.

5 firmware, we have a new feature added to the R1.5, which is the MTU setting. This MTU setting allows the user to limit the maximum size of packets (MTU) that can be sent or received on the network interface. This can be used to prevent certain applications from sending or receiving large packets, but the limitation can be configured based on the IP address used. The MTU of a Switch can be set in the following ways:

In the R1.5 firmware: Navigate to the Settings -> Network page and click on the MTU button. For example, if I were to use a maximum packet size of 10K for a specific IP address, it would be configured in the following way: When configuring the MTU settings, the setting will be applied to the interface. This means that the setting will only apply to the specific IP address of the interface. It does not affect any other IP addresses on the switch.

If you would like to remove the MTU setting, simply navigate back to the Settings -> Network page, click on the MTU button, and enter the desired value. The MTU will not be changed.

If you would like to change the MTU settings on an interface that was previously configured with a value, simply enter the new value and click on Apply Changes. In the GUI: Select the Interface tab on the right side of the GUI. Select the MTU settings on the right side of the interface. If you would like to set the MTU of the interface to a specific IP address, you must configure the interface as a Static IP Address, so that the IP address of the interface is static. To configure the MTU of an interface with a Dynamic IP Address, you would navigate to the Interface -> IP Address settings and select the MTU settings. This would allow you to set the MTU of the interface to a specific IP address.

The MTU setting is supported on the following models of the R1.5 firmware: RP2xxx. SR1xxx. SR2xxx. SL2xxx. SL3xxx. SL4xxx. This setting will only apply to the interface.

Should MTU be 1500 or 1492?

My understanding is that MTU of 1492 is more or less standard, but can 1500 be used?

Is there any specific reason to use one over the other? A good resource for the difference between 1500 and 1492 is Cisco's "IP MSS" document: In general, 1500 is preferred in non-overlapping situations, because it works better with TCP. However, if you need to work with a single protocol (like TCP) and you are willing to compromise on maximum throughput, 1492 works better than 1500.

See section 4.1 in the above document for more detail.