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In the interest of broader networking, I think this page should address any packetized system, including links that do not adhere to a broad network standard, such as the flocks of 2.4 GHz ISM band wireless chips. This article is narrow enough that specific cases such as ethernet can be handled easily as subsections. HatlessAtless ( talk) 21:28, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
The statement: "for Voice over IP traffic, the only effect seen due to the occasional dropped packet is jitter, and therefore... " is wrong. Jitter is "the undesired deviation from true periodicity of an assumed periodic" (wikipedia). Jitter causes packets to not arrive at the expected time, If they arrive at the wrong time by definition they are not lost! If anything, in VoIP, jitter can cause packet dropping by intermediate servers if they arrive too late / out of order. Marsam84 ( talk) 05:57, 3 September 2012 (UTC)
107.4.36.176 has added scary information about packet loss in wireless networks. The fact is, WiFi networks do retransmissions at layer 2 to precisely to avoid these problems. I haven't read the refs yet so I am not reverting at this moment. ~ Kvng ( talk) 14:46, 24 February 2018 (UTC)
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In the interest of broader networking, I think this page should address any packetized system, including links that do not adhere to a broad network standard, such as the flocks of 2.4 GHz ISM band wireless chips. This article is narrow enough that specific cases such as ethernet can be handled easily as subsections. HatlessAtless ( talk) 21:28, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
The statement: "for Voice over IP traffic, the only effect seen due to the occasional dropped packet is jitter, and therefore... " is wrong. Jitter is "the undesired deviation from true periodicity of an assumed periodic" (wikipedia). Jitter causes packets to not arrive at the expected time, If they arrive at the wrong time by definition they are not lost! If anything, in VoIP, jitter can cause packet dropping by intermediate servers if they arrive too late / out of order. Marsam84 ( talk) 05:57, 3 September 2012 (UTC)
107.4.36.176 has added scary information about packet loss in wireless networks. The fact is, WiFi networks do retransmissions at layer 2 to precisely to avoid these problems. I haven't read the refs yet so I am not reverting at this moment. ~ Kvng ( talk) 14:46, 24 February 2018 (UTC)