choke and loss

[mikey388]

I have just been using the netgraph and noticed something called choke and loss

I ran them on a few servers playing office and dust and the loss was always zero but the choke varied from 0-9 but was mainly about 1-2.

What I was wondering is firstly what exactly is loss and choke and secondly are the results I got ok?

Thanks
Mike

 

[jmjneary]

you pretty much want choke and loss at 0 try turning some background programs off

 

[fraco]

this explains choke:

http://home.covad.net/~k25125/SteamyThings/NetGraph_Steam.htm