Matthew Toseland wrote: > 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? > I don't think it's congestion as I've used mtr to measure packet loss in both directions and it all points to that hop. I figure it's either a crappy router or my provider is dropping packets to somehow limit my connection to less than what they advertise allowing me to use. On the other hand, the packet loss isn't consistent, so I'm thinking crappy/under-powered router for the aggregate bandwidth needs of it's downstream DSL customers.
As for how common it is, it seems to come and go. Just checked and things seem to be in a good mood at the moment.
