I read about this XT addition, and wonder: Is it really a good idea?

A normal Ethernet frame do have a MTU of 1526, and with headers and other overhead, the resulting frame will be roughtly 1500 bytes large. Subtracting the IP header from this, which is normally 20 bytes, but lets be harsh and overdo a Little bit, and substract 30 bytes. Then we have 1470 bytes left.
Now lets add 1 MB of transactions: 446 bytes.
Also add the block header and block hashes and signatures, and you will scrape off a bit of that too.

Imagine then sandwiching this in a VPN or anything, and you understand why XT is a bad idea because a block will no longer fit into a single packet, and the packet needs to be fragmented.


Wouldn't it better to hardfork the chain to have a faster bliock distribution rate, lets say instead of 10 minutes you hash a block each minute. Then you get the same increased transaction capacity, but with still each block fitting into a single packet. I dont Think there is a risk of softfork due to a netsplit because I have never Heard about a link that takes more than 1 minute to distribute a packet.