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Ask HN: why is the Internet experiencing high packet-loss?
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Re: Ask HN: why is the Internet experiencing high packet-loss?
#12Clearly a measuring error.
Clicking through their site it is obvious that the 20% 'global packet loss' number is almost wholly created by the large number of sites they are 'testing' that are down and showing 100% packet loss. Of the sites that arent showing 100% loss, most of them are on 0% loss - nothing close to an average of 20%.
Re: Ask HN: why is the Internet experiencing high packet-loss?
#13 Maybe I am a little bit paranoid but I have a weird idea at least for Asia. Most of the countries in Asia is blocking VoIP traffic.
I am working on a VoIP tunneling software (http://www.mizu-voip.com/Products/VoIPTunnel.aspx) used by many telecom companies in Asia.
In the last 3 years we have continuously evolved the built-in encryption algorithms but it was always cracked by the local authorities (yes, they are employing high qualified personnel for this). Last summer we decided to integrate much stronger encryption (at the cost of lower server performance) and since then the protocol was not cracked anymore.
I think that since they cannot easily crack new VoIP encryption anymore, they have decided to lower the quality for all links to keep the VoIP quality low so people have to use their national telecom service at high cost.
What do you think?
Re: Ask HN: why is the Internet experiencing high packet-loss?
#14The Internet is not experiencing high packet-loss, a single website is reporting it, and that's not the same thing. The way that particular website works is people submit routers to be pinged, they ping them every 5 minutes, and graph the results. That's it. It's not in any way an accurate view of the Internet's performance as a whole.
Consider your 'answer' - 'accepted'.
No other data confirms this supposed packet loss, and this clearly looks like an incorrect measurement.
False alarm.
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#15http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/of0lu/wtf_is_goin...
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Re: Ask HN: why is the Internet experiencing high packet-loss?
#16The Internet is not experiencing high packet-loss, a single website is reporting it, and that's not the same thing. The way that particular website works is people submit routers to be pinged, they ping them every 5 minutes, and graph the results. That's it. It's not in any way an accurate view of the Internet's performance as a whole.
For more details, click on the links
http://www.internettrafficreport.com/europe.htm http://www.internettrafficreport.com/asia.htm http://www.internettrafficreport.com/namerica.htm
To see an outdated list of mail servers and routers.
For example, in Europe core1-gig2-0.bletchley.ukcore.bt.net is down. Sounds pretty "core routing" doesn't it? Shame that the DNS name doesn't resolve, so lets mark it as 100% packet loss shall we?
Hmm, maybe it's not packet loss at all...
The Asia link is reporting 2 routers in Iran down, and a name server down in India for an ISP which has 5 other name servers (which are not monitored by ITR), which are all up. Perhaps Iranian internet traffic is being filtered? I know there are a number of blockades around Iran at the moment.
Basically the source list is very poor and outdated, and the site itself should not be trusted.
Re: Ask HN: why is the Internet experiencing high packet-loss?
#17i wonder if they are aggregating the results using the mean or the median? with the mean, a single slow router/path can change the reported number completely, whilst with the median does not exhibit this problem as it is a more robust estimator.
Re: Ask HN: why is the Internet experiencing high packet-loss?
#18The Internet is not experiencing high packet-loss, a single website is reporting it, and that's not the same thing. The way that particular website works is people submit routers to be pinged, they ping them every 5 minutes, and graph the results. That's it. It's not in any way an accurate view of the Internet's performance as a whole.
For more details, click on the links http://www.internettrafficreport.com/europe.htm http://www.internettrafficreport.com/asia.htm http://www.internettrafficreport.com/namerica.htm To see an outdated list of mail servers and routers. For example, in Europe core1-gig2-0.bletchley.ukcore.bt.net is down. Sounds pretty "core routing" doesn't it? Shame that the DNS name doesn't resolve, so lets mark it as 100% packet loss…
Are there any better sources?
Re: Ask HN: why is the Internet experiencing high packet-loss?
#19Re: Ask HN: why is the Internet experiencing high packet-loss?
#20back from holidays traffic ?