Key steps include investigating user complaints, examining endpoints, and monitoring device interfaces and traffic flows. I've been involved in network analysis with two customers recently who had ...

We continue our discussion of what can be done to address the impact of packet loss on application performance over the WAN. In our previous 3 columns, we’ve covered five of the six different ...

Last time, we began our discussion of what can be done to address the impact of packet loss on application performance over the WAN. We listed six different possibilities, and went through how one of ...

When you transmit information, the data is divided into smaller packets, which are then combined at the receiving end. The failure of these packets to reach their destination is known as Packet Loss.

Tying together QoS, network monitoring, and the impact of packet loss QoS Is Still Misunderstood I received an email this week from a gentleman named Steve, who asked about QoS. It seems that some of ...

The use of IP for audio and broadcast transport applications has gained increasing attention as the quality of service (QoS) of packet switched networks continually improves. The lure of reduced costs ...

I’ve previously worried about the devil in the details on the FCC’s network neutrality regulations. In particular, the press release concerning packet loss as a metric worried me, as optimizing for ...

Microsoft has posted its root-cause analysis of its latest Multifactor Authentication (MFA) melt-down, which happened last week. "Severe packet loss" between a network route between Microsoft and the ...

During my recent network conundrum, I wound up doing a lot of pinging. I noticed a fair few lost packets when pinging my router (also functioning as AP) from the laptop while on wifi. Windows is ...

This week, the FCC released the new rules for internet service providers, 400 pages of rules stemming from the decision last month to adopt Title II authority. The most important news from the ...