Key steps include investigating user complaints, examining endpoints, and monitoring device interfaces and traffic flows. I've been involved in network analysis with two customers recently who had ...

When you transmit information, the data is divided into smaller packets, which are then combined at the receiving end. The failure of these packets to reach their destination is known as Packet Loss.

Interface packet loss provides indications of link problems that shouldn’t go ignored. But then you have to decide on an alerting threshold that indicates a problem without creating too many false ...

The use of IP for audio and broadcast transport applications has gained increasing attention as the quality of service (QoS) of packet switched networks continually improves. The lure of reduced costs ...

Last time, we commented on the growing importance of data replication and the fact that it was significantly different than other data applications. In this newsletter, we’ll discuss the amazing ...

I’ve previously worried about the devil in the details on the FCC’s network neutrality regulations. In particular, the press release concerning packet loss as a metric worried me, as optimizing for ...

Microsoft has posted its root-cause analysis of its latest Multifactor Authentication (MFA) melt-down, which happened last week. "Severe packet loss" between a network route between Microsoft and the ...

We continue our discussion of what can be done to address the impact of packet loss on application performance over the WAN. We’ve covered three of the six different possibilities listed in the first ...

During my recent network conundrum, I wound up doing a lot of pinging. I noticed a fair few lost packets when pinging my router (also functioning as AP) from the laptop while on wifi. Windows is ...