On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 07:36:59PM -0600, David Sowder (Zothar) wrote: > Matthew Toseland wrote: > > What's the typical packet loss on a wired internet connection? I've > > hardly ever seen packet loss here, certainly no more than 2%. > > At times, the router immediately upstream from my DSL can get as bad as > 50% or worse.
I've seen 70% but that's usually immediately followed by not being able to get online at all. I don't think TCP functions well in the sort of heavy packet loss that you see when you either have a very noisy/weak wifi link (which could have a lot of bandwidth, but it can't be used because of the noise), or when there are drastic hardware problems on wired networks; do you get 50% because of *congestion*? How common is the above anyway? -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Digital signature URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20070214/d47b4c44/attachment.pgp>
