IanW wrote: 
> O
> Tcp:
> 146 active connections openings
> 72 passive connection openings
> 59 failed connection attempts
> 7 connection resets received
> 7 connections established
> 396432 segments received
> 789892 segments send out
> 16 segments retransmited
> 0 bad segments received.
> 143 resets sent
> 

These are the stats that are initially most interesting.  The stats are
kept as running counts so to see if network is an issue, you need to see
which counts are increasing when you are experiencing dropouts.

Essentially try to limit network activity to only player and server.
Before test do a netstat and save output.  Run a test (i.e. play music)
for a time which has no dropouts. After the time period - do another
netstat and see what "normal" looks like in terms of which counts have
changed and also get an idea of segment sent/receiver per sec.Now repeat
test except this time with dropouts.  Do a netstat about 10 secs just
after dropout has occurred.  Compare normal netstat count changes to
"dropout" netstat changes.

The counts that are associated with network "problems" are "connection
reset received", "segments retransmitted" and "resets sent". 

A "reset sent" means that player is not acknowledging data sent to it
for whatever reason. For example,  data never arrived at player or data
arrived but data acknowldgement message are lost or perhaps player is
paused for long time.
"Segments retransmitted" means data was not received by player or
discarded by player and player has asked for data again.
"connection reset received" means server has not acknowledged data sent
to it by player. For example, either data was not received, it was
unrecognisable or data was discard by player.

The TCPext statistic "connections aborted due to timeout" may be useful
if "reset" counts are unusual.


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