04-06-2016, 12:06 PM
I am not sure if it will help, but I just wanted to throw this out there.
I was having problems with my pine running Ubuntu dropping every few packets when running a constant ping from my windows box: "ping -t -w 25 pine"
I tried a bunch of things in software, nothing seemed to solve the problem. Out of frustration, I just unplugged the Ethernet cable, waited for 5 ping fails, then plugged it back in. After that the connection was flawless. I have no idea why it did this, but it is consistent. Every time I have weird packet loss issues, unplugging and replugging the pine into the switch "fixes" it until the next reboot. I tried swapping ports on my switch with my raspberry pi, which doesn't have this issue, but it seems specific to the pine. To me this sounds similar to what you are experiencing. If it's dropping packets, your speed tests will be significantly impacted by failed TCP packets that need to be re-sent.
I was having problems with my pine running Ubuntu dropping every few packets when running a constant ping from my windows box: "ping -t -w 25 pine"
I tried a bunch of things in software, nothing seemed to solve the problem. Out of frustration, I just unplugged the Ethernet cable, waited for 5 ping fails, then plugged it back in. After that the connection was flawless. I have no idea why it did this, but it is consistent. Every time I have weird packet loss issues, unplugging and replugging the pine into the switch "fixes" it until the next reboot. I tried swapping ports on my switch with my raspberry pi, which doesn't have this issue, but it seems specific to the pine. To me this sounds similar to what you are experiencing. If it's dropping packets, your speed tests will be significantly impacted by failed TCP packets that need to be re-sent.