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Gigili

12:05 AM

Doesn't makes sense to me as I don't know what "packet" is.

Jason Salaz

packet

A bit verbose, but:

Network packet

In computer networking, a packet is a formatted unit of data carried by a packet mode computer network. Computer communications links that do not support packets, such as traditional point-to-point telecommunications links, simply transmit data as a series of bytes, characters, or bits alone. When data is formatted into packets, the bitrate of the communication medium can be better shared among users than if the network were circuit switched. Packet framing A packet consists of two kinds of data: control information and user data (also known as payload). The control information provid...

Gigili

That's what I said.

Jason Salaz

you catch on fast :)

Gigili

I should have learned that at university.

It proves that something sucked.

bmike

@KyleCronin Wow - that's some low loss

Jason Salaz

12:12 AM

higher than 0

bmike

@KyleCronin That's even more impressive if it's a flood.

Jason Salaz

but you're right, probably not as justifiably significant as the problems you were noting

bmike

@JasonSalaz especially for TCP where it will retry if one in a sequence is lost.

You really need high lossage to cause errors - low losses (5 to 10%) just make for slow throughput

instead of .5 %

Jason Salaz

yeah, I know.

Hence why I said

1 min ago, by Jason Salaz

but you're right, probably not as justifiably significant as the problems you were noting

bmike

Thanks folks for the ping tests.

Kyle Cronin

12:16 AM

is that internet connection to your house?

bmike

12:40 AM

@KyleCronin Yes.

Kyle Cronin

and you're serving at least one website from there, judging by the domain

I've considered serving stuff on my residential connection, but I'm wary about the reliability

bmike

@KyleCronin I have three servers here at the moment. One is actual production work (the URL I linked) until I set up it's permanent home on Amazon or some other hosted solution.

I've had less than 30 minutes of down time since January - two of them were self inflicted. Only one was a 25 minute routing outage. I do pay for business class internet and have gotten business class response times.

I had the router fail when I was at home and had to power cycle it. They had a tech on site with a replacement modem less than 3 hours after I called them. Even though it was stable after the reboot - it failed twice and they could see errors on the hardware and were very accommodating at scheduling the work immediately - same day.

The service from comcast is night and day - and I'm happy being on the business class day side of things.

Kyle Cronin

@bmike yeah, the reliability of the internet connection itself is only part of the problem - I'd worry that I'd be stupid and saturate the connection, fill up the routing table, mess around with the cables et

what kind of speeds/pings times do you get?

bmike

(and pingdom will wake me 24/7 if the web server isn't responsive to web traffic - so I've got a close eye on my network connection these days.)

@KyleCronin Our speed isn't as good as it should be - we need to run a new cable under the street to the local loop. We're in the 20-40 MBps range up and down right now. We ran a temporary cable during install and should be well into the 60's once the winter freeze is over and they can run a cable under the street.

Timothy Mueller-Harder

@bmike (Hmm... it'll wake you 24/7?)

bmike

12:50 AM

pings are less than 50ms to most data-center connected sites on the continent.

@TimothyMuellerHarder iOS app alerts with SMS fallback.

It's a free service for what I need - I'm really happy with pingdom and will likely upgrade to a business account once I have more than one monitor needed.

Timothy Mueller-Harder

@bmike Yeah, I was just commenting on your curious phrasing. Sort of sounds like that if the site's down, it'll keep you awake constantly until it goes back up.

bmike

@TimothyMuellerHarder That's the plan. ;-)

Kyle Cronin

@bmike then it's settled, you're hosting the Skype calls for the podcast now :)

Timothy Mueller-Harder

@JasonSalaz Since you obviously have more than 200 rep, simply joining any other SE site will bump up that decimal by one.

...I think.

bmike

@KyleCronin I'm game to try ;-)

Timothy Mueller-Harder

1:01 AM

@KyleCronin What podcast is this?

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