not the cleanest connection to dslreports.com

[#1]

http://www.dslreports.com/tweakr/block:3c4b50e?service=dsl&speed=1250&os=winXP&via=pppoA
this gives me 93 re-transmitted packets.  that's awful.
is this just me, or is our route from plusnet central to dslreports a bit congested tonight?
-- gyre --

[#2]

Its just you
http://www.dslreports.com/tweakr/block:3953495?service=dsl&speed=8192&os=winXP&via=pppoA

[#3]

Oddness.
I was getting 0 or 1 packets retransmitted earlier in the day.
I can now reliably get over 90.
I wonder what I broke? 
-- gyre --

[#4]

Edit, ignore that!

[#5]

http://www.dslreports.com/tweakr/block:24fb551?service=dsl&speed=1250&os=winXP&via=pppoA
This is better... but oddly I had to drop my MTU to 1400 from 1500 on the router.  I'm using pfsense talking to a 585v7 via pptp.
-- gyre --