[Noisebridge-discuss] general question about wifi and packet loss

[munkeyfreenix batcat]

I worked at a cafe that had wireless that always went out a few times each
shift. Poor quality wifi router for the traffic. gets too hot and the router
just needs resetting usually. Just as the employees if you can reset it when
this happens.


On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 10:57 AM, Ryan Castellucci <
ryan.castellucci at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 10:31 AM, John Magolske<listmail at b79.net> wrote:
> > At a café I find an audio stream keeps dropping off. Wondering about
> > the quality of the net connection, I used the mtr command and am
> > trying to make sense of it's output (pasted below). Does this mean
> > packets are being dropped at every hop, all the way back to Google?
> >
> > Some days at this café most everything in the "Loss%" column is right
> > around 0% (and net radio streams fine), other days it's all in the
> > 30-40% range or higher. Could it be a poor connection here at the
> > café? Too many users streaming high bandwidth video? Or just the
> > variable quality of Comcast?
>
> That's clearly an issue with the Wifi.  The loss starts at DD-WRT,
> which is the wireless router.  If it were comcast the first couple
> hops would be no/low loss.  That's probably either poor signal,
> interference or WAY too many users.
>
> The loss reading shows loss UP TO that hop.  So loss at hop 5 could be
> happening at any previous hop.  Traceroute loss/latency statistics
> really do require some interpretation and educated guessing to figure
> out what's going on.
>
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> Ryan Castellucci http://ryanc.org/
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