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Packet Loss only on Mac
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<blockquote data-quote="rcafferky" data-source="post: 1877525" data-attributes="member: 407244"><p>I found the problem.</p><p></p><p>It's not isolated to the mac, it is indeed the VPN provider. </p><p></p><p>It was really strange because on my Linux box, I did not see the packet loss.. But after physically watching it with my eyes I did see a delay in some of the ICMP pings.. Just no message saying "Request Timeout".</p><p></p><p>I went to <a href="http://www.packetlosstest.com" target="_blank">www.packetlosstest.com</a> and ran a few tests on various machines. It was consistent for all of the machines.. So I then tested different VPN servers with expressvpn on my router.. The Tampa and Miami servers had between 7-10% packet loss consistently. So I tried more servers around the US and Dallas TX had 0% packet loss. I still continue to test it and there is hardly any packet loss when I'm connected to Dallas. </p><p></p><p>Sorry for the fire drill here, and I jumped to conclusions that it was my mac. </p><p></p><p>So, if anyone is using a VPN.. I would definitely recommend <a href="http://www.packetlosstest.com" target="_blank">www.packetlosstest.com</a> and run a quick 10 second test to see how your VPN is performing.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rcafferky, post: 1877525, member: 407244"] I found the problem. It's not isolated to the mac, it is indeed the VPN provider. It was really strange because on my Linux box, I did not see the packet loss.. But after physically watching it with my eyes I did see a delay in some of the ICMP pings.. Just no message saying "Request Timeout". I went to [URL="http://www.packetlosstest.com"]www.packetlosstest.com[/URL] and ran a few tests on various machines. It was consistent for all of the machines.. So I then tested different VPN servers with expressvpn on my router.. The Tampa and Miami servers had between 7-10% packet loss consistently. So I tried more servers around the US and Dallas TX had 0% packet loss. I still continue to test it and there is hardly any packet loss when I'm connected to Dallas. Sorry for the fire drill here, and I jumped to conclusions that it was my mac. So, if anyone is using a VPN.. I would definitely recommend [URL="http://www.packetlosstest.com"]www.packetlosstest.com[/URL] and run a quick 10 second test to see how your VPN is performing. [/QUOTE]
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