Comment by prashnts
1 month ago
> packet-loss
For one it can adequately show if your WiFi is performing well...
In a home network setting I've got a UDP display sink (64x64px, RGB) with a custom protocol. It works fine-- no hard number as the performance varies based on other factors, including congestion. I've been able to push it to >90fps, but around 42fps there is virtually no flicker.
For context in my protocol I use all 512bytes, with 3 first being the "line number and such" data and the rest containing ~128 pixels.
I monitor packet loss on both sides all day every day. It’s still a thing, but different than I’d imagined:
- Episodic most often. Something transient causes high loss for a short time. This happens locally and “in the cloud”. - Persistent due to a back connection or very high network load. I only really ever see this locally.
But I can go days at a time and not lose even one of millions of probes and responses.
When connections are good, they’re excellent these days. When they’re bad, well that doesn’t seem to have changed.