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As A&A's wiki (https://support.aa.net.uk/Packet_Loss https://support.aa.net.uk/Packet_Loss) describes, you can see packet loss at link saturation. There is anot
by cyounkins 6y ago
As A&A's wiki (https://support.aa.net.uk/Packet_Loss https://support.aa.net.uk/Packet_Loss) describes, you can see packet loss at link saturation. There is another option, buffering, which causes high latency. The intermediate device must either buffer (causing "buffer bloat" = increased latency) or drop the packet.
If increased packet loss is occurring seemingly randomly, it could be something on the network is updating/syncing and saturating the link. It could be Steam games, desktop OS updates, mobile device updates, podcast downloading, game console updates, etc.
- robotmay 6y agoYeah I have run into this, notably with the Xbox Live app for Windows, which totally saturates the line and generates something like 15% packet loss reports. However that's a different event to the occasional lower but prolonged packet loss which occurs infrequently and usually on a more idle line; which I believe to almost certainly be caused by something beyond my equipment. Knowing how OpenReach operate (who manage our largest internet infrastructure) it's a fairly safe assumption that it's a fault they've introduced somewhere.