> The reality is that these days there generally isn't any packet loss
I don't know which reality bubble you live in, but this is utterly false. I live in the country side and get routinely an average of 40% packet loss on many, many websites. There are plenty of occasions for packets to get lost somewhere between a client and a server.
I don't know which reality bubble you live in, but this is utterly false. I live in the country side and get routinely an average of 40% packet loss on many, many websites. There are plenty of occasions for packets to get lost somewhere between a client and a server.