Network Latency
Sometimes wonder why some sites you are trying to access seems to be very slow even though you have a high speed internet connection? If you didn’t know that the amount of distance from where you are in to the machine you connect to did not have an effect on the time it takes for the page to load then you need to know something about the network latency. More often we talk about bandwidth but not hear anything about latency. The network latency is the time it takes from the moment the destination receives the request until the response arrives back to your machine. More detailed explanation on latency from this little old yet very informative article “It’s the Latency, Stupid“.
