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Pinging a Device Every Second

On Sat, 15 Dec 2018 12:20:01 -0700, Raymond Burkholder said:
> Another aspect is congestion.  Large uploads or downloads can cause 
> packet loss (including dropping the pings with which you are testing).  
> Therefore management packets such as these could be marked and 
> processed, on your side at least, with a higher priority.

How much depends on whether the CPE gear has software recent enough
to avoid massive bufferbloat.