To add to this: I wrote a simple socket.io demo app for a class I was teaching that makes these issues apparent. Try opening http://node.heyanderson.com/ http:/

To add to this: I wrote a simple socket.io demo app for a class I was teaching that makes these issues apparent. Try opening http://node.heyanderson.com/ http://node.heyanderson.com/ on your mobile device and in a browser (Chrome or Safari, preferably) and you'll see the difference in latency.