sigs wanted for a response to the fcc's NOI for faster broadband speeds

William Herrin bill at herrin.us
Sun Dec 3 03:47:38 UTC 2023


On Sat, Dec 2, 2023 at 5:04 PM Rubens Kuhl <rubensk at gmail.com> wrote:
> What I've found missing were references to packet loss impact on
> performance. It seems to assume cable/fiber environments with little
> to no packet loss, while Wi-Fi and 3G/4G/5G  are not like that.

Wireless environments tend to do L2 retransmission, so they express
packet loss as jitter (random change in latency) instead of actual
loss. If you're seeing loss, it's generally on a wired segment.

Regards,
Bill Herrin


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