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what is the concept abouet "Latency"

by Ji Xinyu · in Torque 3D Professional · 06/10/2013 (6:26 pm) · 2 replies

hi,I am confused about the concept of "Latency".who can give me a explanation?
for example,the client sending a user command at time t0,and arrive at server at time t1,the server completed processing it at time t2,the update packet arrive at client at time t3.
I want to know what is Latency?t3-t0,t3-t2 or other value?
Thanks very much
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Torque 3D Owner JeffH
#1
06/10/2013 (6:30 pm)
Latency is ping. It is how long it takes for the client and server to communicate in a round trip.

Lets say you send a text based chat message to the server. It's latency is how long it takes to reach the server and display back to the client.

This may help explain:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ping_(networking_utility)

Torque 3D Owner Ji Xinyu
#2
06/10/2013 (8:08 pm)
thanks