Top "Latency" questions

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How to detect nearest server to test latency/ping speed using Javascript?

I'm implementing a browser extension which should connect to the nearest server to test the ping speed. To have more …

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Measuring ping latency of a server - Python

I have a list of server IP addresses, I need to check if each one is online and how long …

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What is the difference between latency, bandwidth and throughput?

I am struggling to draw a clear line between latency, bandwidth and throughput. Can someone explain me in simple terms …

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How does Amazon RDS backup/snapshot actually work?

I am an Amazon RDS customer and am experiencing daily amazon RDS write latency spikes, corresponding roughly to the backup …

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Database Network Latency

I am currently working on an n-tier system and battling some database performance issues. One area we have been investigating …

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Buffering while converting stream to frames with ffmpeg

I am trying to convert udp stream into frames using ffmpeg. I run following command: ffmpeg -loglevel debug -strict 2 -re …

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Latency of requesting a object from S3 to EC2

What's the latency to GET an object from S3 from an EC2 Instance. For example, how many ms before the …

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How do I obtain the latency between server and client in C#?

I'm working on a C# Server application for a game engine I'm writing in ActionScript 3. I'm using an authoritative server …

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Python logging causing latencies?

I'm developing a real-time REST API using Python3+bottle/UWSGI. I was experiencing latencies in my code, sometimes 100s of …

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How to determine latency of a remote server through the browser

I run a couple of game tunnelling servers and would like to have a page where the client can run …

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