The Internet traffic report is a site which maintains the speed and up time for the internet backbone throughout the world. Its use is as a referene tool in the same way that you might check the traffic report on the Interstates/in your town.
Packet loss shows congestion. By analogy, you use packet loss information to analyze where ‘accidents’ of one type or another are occurring or have occurred.
There are times when people ask why FR is so slow. The hubs, routers, state backbone sites and integrity of networks each contribute to speed, as you know. This and the health of FR servers may be impacted by the health of the network nodes. The cause can be Denial of Service attacks/swarms of people trying to get at sites; these can be part of a pattern.
I post it as a reference for you all, too. Sorry to not explain more. Someone with more knowledge of the technical specifics can jump in here.
Please excuse. Reference should have been reference.
I did a quick write up of the answer here in a later post.
I can get to looking at things too far from the inside, it seems.
Oh... Okay...
Thanks...
FYI — here’s what JimRob said about the recent FR slowdown...
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To: JudyinCanada
John shifted some things around to better balance the load on our servers, reconfigured some system settings and kicked off a bunch of search engine spiderbots that were killing us.
98 posted on 01/24/2009 10:25:04 PM PST by Jim Robinson
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