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Re: Packet loss rates up to 2% on TekSavvy DSL >I believe Teksavvy has ICMP packets set to low priority, so when you ping/trace, and the router is busy it will show as timed out.
OK, this would mean to me then that they are, in effect, doing traffic shaping or throttling of certain types of IP traffic (ICMP is an IP protocol). My understanding was that they weren't doing any such thing, treating certain IP packets differently.
>This doesn't mean it is down, if you never get dropped downloads/uploads then your line is fine.
Yes, I agree, nothing is "down". TCP makes up for lost packets and most of us would never notice if 2% of packets are lost, assuming the time distribution is random. Even VOIP should be OK with such packet loss, but 0% is better.
Don't get me wrong, Internet still works OK at 2% loss rate; Even google.com is showing me 1-3% packet loss (on my Videotron cable which has 0% loss for other sites). I'm just trying to figure out if this is normal for TekSavvy or perhaps due to a sometimes, somewhat congested local router.
If ICMP packets truly are being treated differently on TekSavvy network, I'm sure I can find another IP or UDP protocol to do some latency and packet loss testing with. |
