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How to validate Packet loss in Windows - Packet Loss

What is Packet Loss ?

You are facing the problem while on going calls as "Hey, Your Voice is breaking Up; I cannot hear you." So, this statement is the result of packet loss during on calls, at that time some Data Packets were dropped.


So this issues are occur with VoIP Communications, but it can also getting with a Live Video streaming as well as online gaming.


Hence being networking person you should aware through such type of issues and for that this blog will help you out through By 5 Steps with detail information.


Step 1: Open Windows menu

Just open our Windows menu to locate our command processor. When opened, search from “cmd”.

Step 2: Open Windows Command Processor

Next we locate our Windows command processor (cmd), which is “cmd” that we will be using to run each Packet Loss test.

The first item we want to find is ours computer IP address. The IP address is necessary as we will use it for the packet loss.

Step 3: Check IP address


To validate computers IP address, you have to type “ipconfig” into the command processor and click on enter Key.


This will generate an IPv4 IP address, as well as an IPv6 IP address, which are determined by network prefixes. To check packet loss, you need to use that IPv4 IP address. Using this IP Address we are going to check packet loss.

Although running a packet loss test to your own IP is not the most effective, it can help to develop your understanding of your internet connection as well as in networking. This is important for any live video streaming as well as online gaming.

Step 4: Checking the packet loss

We are going to check a packet loss with few scenarios. One to www.google.com, another to www.google.de, to Datapath.io and lastly to our computers IP address. We are using here Google and the main reason is consistency and reliability of that. It is the safest way to check packet loss.

|The firstly we are going to check with Google.de. Now we are going to  open our command processor and input the following information:


“Ping” (space) “www.google.de” (space) “-n” (space) “30”. This should look like the following:

ping www.google.de –n 30

This command will run a ping test 30 times. It will provide you with network latency reported as round trip time (RTT) in milliseconds (ms).
Output: As you can see there is an 2 packet lost from overall 30 packets.

The second test we are going to check with Google.com. The Google.com test will need the following information in our command processor:

“Ping” (space) “www.google.com” (space) “-n” (space) “30”. This should look like the following:

ping www.google.com –n 30


The next test we are going to check with Datapath.io. The Datapath.io test will need the following information in our command processor:

“Ping” (space) “www.datapath.io” (space) “-n” (space) “30”. This should look like the following:

ping www.datapath.io –n 30



We are running the test 30 times, which provides us a good assessment of our Internet quality.

The last test we want to run is a packet loss test to our IP address, which is the address we took from our “ipconfig” test above. The information we place in the command processor is:


“Ping” (space) “IPv4 IP Address” (space) “-n” (space) “30”. This should look like the following:
ping 172.16.10.1 –n 30

 

Step 5: Analyzing the packet loss results

The last step in our packet loss test is to analyze if there is any packet loss.
In all four tests, we experience “0” packet loss. This can be seen in each cases.


The goal is packet loss of 0, as any packet loss is negative. Packet loss is what causes the “Your Voice is breaking up” feeling in VoIP calls. This is the lag we experience with Live gaming, and live video streaming stalls that no longer load.


Although there are many causes of packet loss, there are only so many solutions for the average Internet user. This is ensuring your router is up to date or plugging into the Internet with an Ethernet cable.


To know whether your Internet problem is packet loss, you will need to run a test, and the above steps are one of the simplest ways to do so.




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