Windows Networking Tools

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that incorporates audio and video that can be viewed by the click of

a mouse. Because the video player buffers data to obtain the abil-

ity to eliminate random delays associated with the arrival of pack-

ets as they flow over the Internet and encounter different degrees of

delay, any dropping of packets can adversely affect how the audio or

video is reconstructed. is in turn may explain why a conversation

will suddenly have an unnatural pause, or suddenly your view of your

children on the other coast may become blocky and then revert to a

good visual. For both situations lost packets probably caused the prob-

lem. Because routers, wh ...