I have been using winmtr for testing for packet loss and even though the backhaul has just been upgraded at my exchange am still seeing up to 15% packet loss with winmtr reports.
If I use visualroute or pingplotter I see way less losses. They are all tracerouting to the same IP address.
Can someone explain why the results are so different? I would assume they all test using "standard" icmp ping packets? or do some of them use different packet types for testing packet loss?
In the following tests taken one after the other, Winmtr results show up to 14% loss while Pingplotter shows 1%
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| WinMTR statistics |
| Host - % | Sent | Recv | Best | Avrg | Wrst | Last |
|------------------------------------------------|------|------|------|------|------|------|
| 192.168.1.1 - 0 | 140 | 140 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| ip-58-28-15-31.wxnz.net - 12 | 96 | 85 | 48 | 51 | 71 | 51 |
| ip-58-28-13-131.wxnz.net - 9 | 104 | 95 | 48 | 51 | 68 | 48 |
| ip-58-28-16-1.wxnz.net - 14 | 92 | 80 | 48 | 52 | 90 | 51 |
| ge-0-0-2-232.akl-ip04.wxnz.net - 12 | 96 | 85 | 0 | 54 | 61 | 54 |
| northnet.net.nz - 9 | 104 | 95 | 49 | 52 | 65 | 50 |
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Regards Allen.