Re: European packet loss average increasing

[Michael.Dillon () radianz com]

> My non-scientific measurements (i.e. pings to well known european
> sites) show an increase in packet loss to about 6%, the 10 day
> average previously was less than 1%.

That is similar to what the Internet Traffic Report for Europe shows at 
this URL 
http://www.internettrafficreport.com/cgi-bin/tr_graphpage.pl?score/7/Europe

For those who don't know, Ebone had a policy of zero packet loss on the 
network 99.5% of the time and we managed to exceed this on almost all of 
our links. In other words, the graph of packet loss was a horizontal line 
with the occasional small blip. The major change in the traffic report 
graphs is that packet loss is six times greater after the Ebone shutdown. 
There was also a dip in traffic levels that partially corrected itself. 
Presumably the bottom of the dip represents convergence and the lack of a 
full recovery is partly due to organizations that were not multihomed and 
who had not yet found alternate providers.

--Michael Dillon
ex-Ebone