Latency

What is Latency?


1.

Latency is a term used for the time it takes for a packet of data to be sent by an application, travel to and be recieved by another application. Higher latency means longer time taken, meaning more delay of the requested action.

-Wow, you have really high latency!

-So that's why my internet is so slow!

See lag, delay, data, server, network, bandwidth

2.

Laency is when a system will run slower maybe because you have changed something on the system

I changed some settings on my system took a reboot and it started up slower because it was applying the new settings and this is what we call latency

See lag, late, later, slow


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