Agreed on all counts. > And like you say, "bouncy" latency is even more disruptive The technical term for this is "jitter". Networking and telecoms people pay

Agreed on all counts. > And like you say, "bouncy" latency is even more disruptive The technical term for this is "jitter". Networking and telecoms people pay a lot of attention to this metric, both for the reasons you cite and because jitter is much more noticeable than high-but-constant latency in voice or video communications.