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Packet loss
Ralph Doctorow
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Join date: 16 Oct 2005
Posts: 560
02-10-2006 15:59
Is anyone else seeing packet loss that seems to average about 10 and goes up to over 70? This is really messing up controlling my AV. It appears to have started with the latest release, I didn't have anything like this previously.

I just did a series of DOS pings and am getting about 75 msec to www.secondlife.com and 0 packet loss. In SL my ping times are around 100 or so both ways with high packet loss as above.
Ron Overdrive
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Join date: 10 Jul 2005
Posts: 1,002
02-10-2006 17:29
From: Ralph Doctorow
Is anyone else seeing packet loss that seems to average about 10 and goes up to over 70? This is really messing up controlling my AV. It appears to have started with the latest release, I didn't have anything like this previously.

I just did a series of DOS pings and am getting about 75 msec to www.secondlife.com and 0 packet loss. In SL my ping times are around 100 or so both ways with high packet loss as above.



Ping uses TCP/IP protocols, SL uses UDP protocols. UDP is more prone to packet loss but is generally faster then TCP/IP. This is why you're suffering more packet loss in SL when compared to Ping. Anyways I too have been suffering a bit of packet loss every now and then. Next big update I'm gonna just download the client and uninstall what I have completely. Hopefully this'll fix it.