<p class="MsoNormal">I recently started using Vista Ultimate on my laptop. So far, I am very happy with its performance but there has been an ongoing issue that I have been experiencing with it while using it at uni.
This problem was that certain web sites or network resources would not load correctly over the wireless connection while at QUT (eg: pages like <a href="http://www.whirlpool.net.au/">www.whirlpool.net.au</a> would half load and then hang). It worked fine at home and on other wireless networks. I had seen similar problems at work and they were generally MTU related. The issue was however that the Vista uses path discovery to discover the required MTU settings.
I believe however something to do with the QUT network (possibly the use a transparent proxy ) was somehow stopping this from working correctly.
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<p class="MsoNormal">The reason why this issue has never manifested itself until now is because the installation of the Cisco VPN client forces the MTU of all network adapters to 1300 upon installation.
The issue that was then found was that Vista doesn't allow you to edit the registry in the same way as XP did. However, after a bit of searching on the net, I came across the following commands that will allow you to set MTU under vista.
<strong>To view the status of your network adapters
(ie: to view the MTU) you use the following command:
netsh interface ipv4 show subinterfaces
<strong>And to set the MTU of the desired interface:
(setting my wireless adapter to 1470 in this case, this max MTU was found by performing a ping with the do not fragment flag set and finding the max packet size, eg: ping -f -l 1470 www.qut.com)
<font color="#ff0000"><strong>The following was run in an a command prompt that was run as administrator.
netsh interface ipv4 set subinterface "Wireless Network Connection" mtu=1470 store=persistent
After setting this, I found that everything worked fine. Happy days..
Hope that this can be helpful.
Well after 5 days away up at the Alexandra Headlands camping and conference centre, Synod is over for another 18 months… well… sort of… I will get to that later. Either way, I am back and it is back to life as usual.
After attending the 11th Assembly last July, I thought that I knew approximately what I was going to be in for. This was found to be the case in some ways, but in others this was a very different experience to that had less than 12 months at Assembly. One major difference that was apparent almost immediately was that it would appear that the average age of those at Synod was significantly lower than what was present at Assembly; with far more under 40’s attending. The way in which proposals were brought to the Synod also seemed to be quite different to the way in which they were handled at Assembly, with those at Synod being much more report orientated.
I also found that another really great thing about Synod was that it was a great opportunity to catch up with others from throughout the state who I have met on various other Church events over the last year or so. In addition to this, it was good to meet others that I had not previously met.
One part of the Synod which was particularly good was the recognition of those ministers who had retired since the previous Synod meeting. I thought that this was really good to recognise those who had been preaching the word for multiples of my lifetime. At the same time, it was great to meet and talk to some of the ministry candidates and people starting doing ministry traineeships. It would have been a good lesion in Church Government for them but at the same time I thought that it was really good to recognise those who had come to the end of their ministry, while at the same time being able to see the next generation who are just starting out (or just about to). Very encouraging.
There was also significant time to be spent getting to know other ministers from throughout the state depending on which table you happened to find yourself at on any given day. I was lucky enough to sit down with two very interesting people, one a Minister of the Word and the other a Lay leader of a faith community (who happened to be sleeping in the same dorm as me too). This was an extremely valuable time as we shared about our local ministries and they offered their wisdom. I have to say that this would be easily the most significant thing gained from attending larger scale church meetings (ie: Synod and Assembly) because it is not often that you get to spend 5 days living in the company of so many in Gods ministry with such a broad range of experience and backgrounds. Spending this time sharing with such people and seeing what God is doing all over the state and country is a really significant blessing.
Getting back to that comment about no more Synod for 18 months. It is not entirely correct. Due to some of the decisions made, we will actually have to get back together for a Special Synod sometime in the next few months, which could be quite interesting in itself.
Either way, I thoroughly enjoyed the time spent at Synod. I found it to be extremely edifying and am thankful for the privilege of being able to experience it (and Assembly) and are thankful for that. Being under 25 though, there should be no issue attending the next Synod either.
In the mean time, might have to look into a period of discernment…
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