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<p><font size="2">I added this comment via Hacker News<br>
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<p><font size="2">"Packet loss" is more interesting to nerds than consumers, who don't know what it means. Arguably it needs a better name.<br>
"Delays due to retransmission" is short enough to fit the label, and is what a packet loss means _to the reader of the label_, rather than to me.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 4/15/22 10:47, Dave Taht wrote:<br>
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">"We believe that metrics beyond bandwidth such as latency and jitter
(the variance in latency) have grown appreciably in importance and
that should be reflected in policy going forward."
- <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://blog.cloudflare.com/breaking-down-broadband-nutrition-labels/">https://blog.cloudflare.com/breaking-down-broadband-nutrition-labels/</a>
It also includes a number for "typical packet loss": .08%
I miss when we could do a discussion in line with a blog, or via
email, in this case, they post urls to reddit, etc, at the end.
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David Collier-Brown, | Always do right. This will gratify
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