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Less packet loss when torrenting... Wut?
Hi all,
I recently took the plunge to upgrade to 50Meg as my packet loss on 20Mb was around 30-40%. Unfortunately, upgrading hasn't given me the improvement I was looking for. I'm still getting horrible packet loss and upload speeds (getting a nice juicy 50Mb downstream though, the upstream bandwidth on my UBR is clearly too crowded, but that's another story.)
Regardless of this, can someone explain to how the phenomenon shown in the graph below can occur?
The period where the packet loss was below 5% was when I was torrenting something, so I decided to close uTorrent to check my connection and my packet loss shot back up.
How can this happen? I'd expect to get more packet loss if I was using more of my upstream bandwidth. Can anyone shed some light?
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Cheers,
Dan
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