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0 pointsthrownaway242411y ago0 comments

Not really. A busy network has a million little buffers and things where your packet might get dropped but succeed 1ms later.

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wtallis11y ago

But those buffers are also often huge and your packet could still come out the other end of one of them 20ms (or 2s, if it's a cable or DSL modem) later. You still want to treat it as evidence of congestion, though.

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0 pointsthrownaway242411y ago0 comments

Not really. A busy network has a million little buffers and things where your packet might get dropped but succeed 1ms later.

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wtallis11y ago

But those buffers are also often huge and your packet could still come out the other end of one of them 20ms (or 2s, if it's a cable or DSL modem) later. You still want to treat it as evidence of congestion, though.

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