Route changes are a pretty normal fact of life with the internet. It sometimes happens for load balancing reasons, sometimes to route your data around problem areas, or a number of other possible reasons.<br><br>Ping Plotter, by default, keeps track of ALL route changes. Normally, this works really well - and pretty much without notice by anyone (unless you're looking for it). The time when it can start to cause problems in the data that Ping Plotter displays is when the length of the route changes (when your destination shows up at different hops, depending on the route being used) - as the changing routes cause problems in the final hop. If the length of your route is changing regularly, I'd like to know any details you have about this (as I've yet to run into a normally oscillating route where the route *lenght* changes!).<br><br>If you want to supress recording information about route changes, you can do this in Ping Plotter (ask if you're interested and I'll walk you through it) - unless the length of the route is changing - in which case recording these changes can't be supressed.<br><br>Now, there are a few different variations of things that could be causing you problems - and causing your packet loss. A big variable in this is whether or not your route length is changing.<br><br>One thing to know about Ping Plotter (and all ping tools) compared to HTTP web access is that HTTP uses error correction in its communication. If you get a lost packet when transferring HTTP, you often don't notice this because the protocol corrects for errors. The ICMP protocol (which is used by Ping Plotter and other ping tools) is lossy - so if something along the way drops data, it's never corrected - just reported by whatever tool sent it out. This is one possible reason why you're not seeing lost data when browsing the web or downloading something, but are seeing it with Ping Plotter.<br><br>The symptoms seen when data is lost in an error correcting protocol is that performance suffers. When data is lost, the protocol negotiates for it to be re-sent and this takes time. If you're seeing slow performance when downloading files, or browsing the web, it's possible that the drop in performance is being caused by packet loss.<br><br>It'd really help if you elaborated a bit on the problems you're seeing - and I'll see what I can do to suggest some reasons why you're seeing them - and what you can do to address them. If you want to send some Ping Plotter data (either a safe file in .pp2 format, or some images), I'll have a look at them and see if I can help you understand what you're seeing any better.<br><br>