Hi all
I've been experiencing some network issues I've never seen before (in 20
years of (admittedly home LAN) experience). One of my machines was showing
8% packet loss when pinging the same site as another machine on the same hub
at the same time which was reporting 0%. This proves it had to be a local
fault and sure enough - swapping the 8% machine's cable for a new one
resulted in 0% loss.
What I find odd though is why not 0% or 100%? Surely the wires inside the
cable can only break - it wasn't as if the cable was being moved around - it
was stationary. To lose one packet every 12 or so seems very odd for a
cable issue.
As I say, with new cable installed, it's now at 0% packet loss so all is
well that ends well but would the issue have been to do with:
a) the length of the cable or
b) the quality of the cable or
c) both?
Cheers
Rob
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