Originally posted by Hexis
Latency has very little to do with bandwitdh. In transfer rate terms even less. A correclty configured machine will be fine if the latency is consistant.
Latency has very little to do with bandwitdh. In transfer rate terms even less. A correclty configured machine will be fine if the latency is consistant.
Tier's are classifed by how many hops they are away from the backbone of the internet. As an example- say you have two ISP's with T1 connections. One is 3 hops away from the backbone and one is only 1 hop away. You're going to have better latency with the ISP only 1 hop away, because each time you go through a hop you are traversing routers, etc that add to transmission time. This delay is what helps to make up your cumulative latency.
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