FWIW, you don't have to out in the sticks (the backwoods?) to have a network problem:
http://mina.naguib.ca/blog/2012/10/22/the-little-ssh-that-sometimes-couldnt.html
However, as I understand it, in this case the TCP checksumming worked
and protected the application from the corrupted data.
Cheers,
Robb.
