Latency

100 milliseconds ... typical VR feedback loop

200 milliseconds

Or what?

How long before we can’t control or react to the other players across the net? This the THE BIG DEAL, IN FACT THE WHOLE DEAL with Net-VEs.

For Online Game addicts, only one question : "What is your ping ?"

• speed of light delays (~ 10 ms of delay per time zone)

  • light trough fibber : 200kkm/s, 44835km/24 = 1868km => 9,34ms

• delays from the computers themselves

  • software (OS) and network Hardware

• delays from the network : the routers (gateway) work

  • ethernet to the LAN : 10 ms

  • modem on phone system : 100 ms

  • transcontinental transfers + 60-150 ms

  • intercontinentals latencies + 250-500 ms

   

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