UDP packet ~1400 byte maximum

Newbie & Debugging Questions
#1

Hey guys, I’ve come into a problem.
I’m writing a UDP server/client program that sends datagram packets at 20fps. The client will not receive packets over the internet any larger than around 1400 bytes, Is there a way I can get around this without having to manually split them up and rejoin them later? (Reading http://www.gamedev.net/topic/470929-max-udp-packet-payload/ seems to be something with routers dropping packets)

I also looked here:

If I do have to split the packets myself, would it be better to split them into 508 byte chunks or 1472 byes?

Thanks very much

#2

That’s a hard limit of the packet size so there is no way around it. As for splitting size, I want to say pack as much as possible into a packet but that might increase the rate at which you lose packets. Try different max sizes and see what kind of drop rate you get.

#3

Alright, thanks for confirming that. I’ll experiment a bit.