Latency

[mikestips]

What is the difference when you ping and you get reply with ms, then latency?

 

[burtsbees]

What???
Do you mean...what IS latency, what causes it, or what is considered latent traffic as measured in miliseconds?

Burt

 

[jimbopalmer]

Here is an interesting latency tutorial, older but still the best. Stuart Chesire is the author of Bolo, an early multiplayer game, and of Zeroconf/Bonjour, an automatic way to assign IPs.

http://www.stuartcheshire.org/papers/LatencyQuest.html

http://www.stuartcheshire.org/rants/Latency.html

I tried to remain child-like, all I acheived was childish.