I'll the share the comment here that I posted on the article page.
OP, you should have done latency tests as well. Whether packets arriving out-of-order is unacceptable to an application or not depends on the time distribution of packet delays. If, for example, 99.9% of packets arrive in-order within, say, 10 ms, then that is perfectly acceptable to use for video streaming, for example. Even if that means a packet is 1000 packets late, this just requires a bigger buffer on the receiving end. As long as it's below a certain duration, out-of-order packets aren't necessarily a problem even for live content.
The grouping of 5 packets together and thus checking whether a packet arrive out-of-order more than six places seems arbitrary. If, for example, a packet arrives out-of-order 50 packets late, but it's actually only 1 ms late, then it's not a problem. If it comes along 1 second too late, then it is a problem.
Yes, you're right. That was obvious once I got the data. I still thought what I had was worth writing about :)
As you say, that grouping is arbitrary and, it was more likely to include packets that shouldn't have been included (multiple seconds later) than those that did. Though, that's more todo with the fact that I sent so few packets (5-10) in each burst.
OP, you should have done latency tests as well. Whether packets arriving out-of-order is unacceptable to an application or not depends on the time distribution of packet delays. If, for example, 99.9% of packets arrive in-order within, say, 10 ms, then that is perfectly acceptable to use for video streaming, for example. Even if that means a packet is 1000 packets late, this just requires a bigger buffer on the receiving end. As long as it's below a certain duration, out-of-order packets aren't necessarily a problem even for live content.
The grouping of 5 packets together and thus checking whether a packet arrive out-of-order more than six places seems arbitrary. If, for example, a packet arrives out-of-order 50 packets late, but it's actually only 1 ms late, then it's not a problem. If it comes along 1 second too late, then it is a problem.