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In the continuing tale of networking hauntedness, I've had some mysteriously slow downloads for months, that finally ann

In the continuing tale of networking hauntedness, I've had some mysteriously slow downloads for months, that finally annoyed me enough to go properly debugging 😭 Turns out that fiber that looked plugged into the SFP wasn't and I had 1-5% packet loss on a primary link on our LAN

For extra pain this didn't show up as more than a handful of receive errors because most of the packets getting yeeted had such a bad SNR it didn't recognise them as packets

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