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throw__2sdfw on Nov 3, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Blip: A tool for seeing your internet latency

How does this measure packet loss since this is only javascript and to my knowledge its not possible to measure packetloss with tcp connection.

pgorczak on Nov 3, 2022 [–]

It doesn’t measure packet loss, but since there is one tiny request in flight at a time, it ends up in a single IP packet with packet loss being visible as retransmissions / outliers taking multiples of your average round trip time.

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