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> FarPlay is a state-of-the-art app for communicating in ultra-low-latency with others over the internet. I mean... its still doing a round trip over the inter
by dahfizz 5y ago
> FarPlay is a state-of-the-art app for communicating in ultra-low-latency with others over the internet.
I mean... its still doing a round trip over the internet, right? Maybe I just have a very different definition of "ultra-low-latency".
- willeh 5y agoEverything is relative and everything is a tradeoff, so I think what they are trying to say with ultra-low latency is that they have tried to minimise possible sources of latency and that make all possible trade-offs to favour lower latency. A streaming music service might for instance buffer audio (which incurs latency) to get reliability, which FarPlay probably doesn't do
- tomfanning 5y agoYes but. I'm looking right now at a mtr (traceroute) screen from a rural fibre-to-the-premises broadband connection in Lancashire, north-west UK, achieving 2.5ms RTT to Manchester (the nearest major city, ~60km) and 8.5ms RTT to London (~325km). Things are improving. That's only ~10x and ~8x the light travel time, assuming straight lines which is best case. ~8.3x and ~5.3x respectively if you consider that light is much slower in fibre than air.