Enough time for simple organisms to evolve new limbs or complex human civilizations to appear, peak and bottom out. If you add up all the time the Internet has cost humanity, waiting for pages to load, it adds up to over 25,000 years. Look, the progress bar has almost reached its destination at the top right of the screen. Why is the webpage taking so long to load? Did I wake up this morning in 2005? Probably not, you’re just another silent victim of packet loss. A few microseconds of delay can be the difference between capturing the flag in Counterstrike or being the ignominious recipient of a well-timed headshot or, live-streaming the final of a sporting event and getting the result through your Twitter feed before witnessing it “live and direct”. Especially noticeable in real time situations, such as streaming services or online videogames. Packet loss is when this information doesn’t arrive correctly. If you lose the packet you also lose the contents.Īt upper network layers, data travels in the form of packets, which deliver the information in a way that the receiver can order and use. Packet is a container used for sending contents.

Basically, loss has mainly negative connotations, except weight loss if you’re on a diet.

The Oxford English dictionary probably defines ‘loss’ as a feeling of lack, missing something that was once in one’s possession. So what’s it all about? Packet loss: problems, causes and solutions One of the most important metrics related to network performance, packet loss is a monitoring fundamental.

Packet sender log packets