That factor is latency. The best way to define latency is as lag: the span of time between when a packet or group of packets is sent from a source to a destination, and it's usually measured in ...

When the first mainframe computers were introduced the big challenge was to improve performance by decreasing the latency between spinning reels of tape and the processor—while also increasing the ...

The speed of a network is generally defined as throughput: how many megabits or gigabits your network can pump through its pipes in the course of a second. That's certainly important, but there's ...