[22637] in North American Network Operators' Group
latency vs. packet loss
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Zeeff)
Wed Jan 13 16:39:22 1999
To: nanog@merit.edu
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 16:18:04 -0500 (EST)
From: jzeeff@whs.verio.net (Jon Zeeff)
Reply-To: jon@zeeff.com
How well does latency correlate to packet loss on the Internet? For
example, if one were to pick one of several randomly placed sites on
the net based on lowest latency to/from point x, what percentage of
this time would this also yield the site with the lowest packet loss
to/from point x? My guess is that the correlation is high (due to
typical buffer sizes).
