How bad can a TCP packet loss/retransmit be?

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Issue

  • I am looking at a traffic capture and I can see some retransmissions. How bad is their impact on my application?
  • My application is having a bad TCP performance. Is it because of these drops?

Environment

TCP communication, over any link.

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