Packet loss will have a far greater effect on international traffic than on local. Proxy traffix is local
I'm fully aware of how packet loss kills throughput. For about 3 months
@TheRoDent and I sat and proved to Octotel I had 3-5% packet loss everyday which was causing me to get sub 1mb throughput. They somehow fixed it and last night my packet loss was only:
iperf3.exe --port 17001 -c trcvmh01.cisp.co.za --bandwidth 20M -l 1400 --omit 2 -R -u
Connecting to host trcvmh01.cisp.co.za, port 17001
Reverse mode, remote host trcvmh01.cisp.co.za is sending
[ 4] local 192.168.1.247 port 58903 connected to 154.0.15.181 port 17001
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth Jitter Lost/Total Datagrams
[ 4] 0.00-1.00 sec 2.51 MBytes 21.0 Mbits/sec 0.096 ms 1/1878 (0.053%) (omitted)
[ 4] 1.00-2.00 sec 2.37 MBytes 19.9 Mbits/sec 0.155 ms 6/1783 (0.34%) (omitted)
[ 4] 0.00-1.00 sec 2.38 MBytes 20.0 Mbits/sec 0.156 ms 4/1789 (0.22%)
[ 4] 1.00-2.00 sec 2.38 MBytes 19.9 Mbits/sec 0.158 ms 4/1786 (0.22%)
[ 4] 2.00-3.00 sec 2.38 MBytes 20.0 Mbits/sec 0.116 ms 2/1784 (0.11%)
[ 4] 3.00-4.00 sec 2.37 MBytes 19.9 Mbits/sec 0.197 ms 9/1784 (0.5%)
[ 4] 4.00-5.00 sec 2.38 MBytes 19.9 Mbits/sec 0.199 ms 7/1788 (0.39%)
[ 4] 5.00-6.00 sec 2.38 MBytes 20.0 Mbits/sec 0.093 ms 3/1786 (0.17%)
[ 4] 6.00-7.00 sec 2.38 MBytes 19.9 Mbits/sec 0.183 ms 3/1784 (0.17%)
[ 4] 7.00-8.00 sec 2.38 MBytes 20.0 Mbits/sec 0.173 ms 4/1785 (0.22%)
[ 4] 8.00-9.00 sec 2.38 MBytes 20.0 Mbits/sec 0.095 ms 3/1785 (0.17%)
[ 4] 9.00-10.00 sec 2.38 MBytes 20.0 Mbits/sec 0.214 ms 2/1785 (0.11%)
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth Jitter Lost/Total Datagrams
[ 4] 0.00-10.00 sec 24.0 MBytes 20.1 Mbits/sec 0.199 ms 41/17861 (0.23%)
[ 4] Sent 17861 datagrams
iperf Done.
This was done at 9PM along with those speedtests. Sadly the web proxy doesn't allow me to run cmd off it so I can't test its loss vs mine but 0.23% loss doesn't seem bad at all compared to the 5% I used to have.