I was pinging pingbox1.thinkbroadband.com which is where their firebrick thing is but I was seeing a similar thing pinging cloudflare 1.1.1.1 when that thread was going and one of the links was down.
Probably not helpful at all and also not too bad right now, not that up to a single % is gonna be a huge problem.
My main question was about the power levels dropping so low in this case but they're back in check now.
My concern was that I was going to end up with packet loss getting worse like that issue in the first post back in june.