Enable Jumbo Frames?

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Any benefit to enabling Jumbo frames on the device, specifically for my gaming PC?

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Edit: For gaming jumbo frames may help, so I enabled it along with changing my PC ethernet controller to enable Jumbo Frames at 9014.

Does anyone know what the frames are set for in the route 10 when you enable it?

I read that the MTU should match between router and device.

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There is no benefit to enable Jumbo frames for gaming. Packet sizes vary about 40 to about 1400 bytes, depending on the type of games. Game developers have already taken into consideration WAN optimization. Your ISP doesn’t support Jumbo frames, so it’s kind of a moot point. Jumbo frames frames are a benefit on local LAN segments where you have clients and server moving around alot of data, locally..

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What @funktional1 said, but just for completeness, here’s what the MTU is set to when Jumbo Frames are enabled on the Route10

config device
        option name 'br-lan'
        option type 'bridge'
        option mtu '9216'
        option stp '0'
        option igmp_snooping '0'
        option multicast_querier '0'
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Thank you!

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