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Slow connection is okay, it's just slow. Now spotty connection, or high latency, that's the killer. Webapps that make 50 requests to download all the JavaScrip
by Swizec 10y ago
Slow connection is okay, it's just slow. Now spotty connection, or high latency, that's the killer.
Webapps that make 50 requests to download all the JavaScript and CSS and talk to the API and get 3 images really really really don't behave well when 12 of those 50 requests fail or take 30 seconds to complete. Honestly, I'd rather have slow internet than packet lossy internet.
Still don't know why, but my Xfinity router routinely gets into a state where it drops the first 10 or so packets of any request. The first `ping 8.8.8.8` takes 3 seconds, the rest are the usual 0.1 second. Terrible.
- riskneural 10y agoWhat do you mean by latency in this context?
- richardwhiuk 10y agoProbably really means highly variable latency, i.e. jitter, where the RTT spikes horribly, which will cause packets to assumed to be dropped.