Re:1993 Murder She Wrote VR Episode
by Dylan16807 on Saturday November 12, 2022 @01:49PM
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> file transfer paragraph
It's a continuous stream of data. If you want to conceptualize it as "files", then you can consider each "file" as either sub-kilobyte, or sub-frame-length. With the former, there is exactly zero change on latency, and with the latter there is a handful of milliseconds.
In other words, bandwidth only affects the portion of latency between receiving the first byte and receiving the last byte. In this situation that's so tiny it's negligible. The latency to the first byte is what matters, and that number is basically independent of the bandwidth.
> freeway paragraph, last paragraph
If the police set up a "checkpoint" then that is directly going to delay packets. Obviously that changes latency. That has nothing to do with bandwidth though. The same with "data has to pause for a security inspection or take detours through multiple locations". I'm not sure why you quoted this part.
But let's consider a freeway that goes down to one lane (or alternatively that we 10x the number of cars we have), which is a bandwidth change. Well, we're sending a fixed amount of cars per second down the freeway. If they can't fit into one lane, then the whole thing will immediately back up and we'll lose connection entirely. It doesn't affect latency, it drops the connection.
It's a continuous stream of data. If you want to conceptualize it as "files", then you can consider each "file" as either sub-kilobyte, or sub-frame-length. With the former, there is exactly zero change on latency, and with the latter there is a handful of milliseconds.
In other words, bandwidth only affects the portion of latency between receiving the first byte and receiving the last byte. In this situation that's so tiny it's negligible. The latency to the first byte is what matters, and that number is basically independent of the bandwidth.
> freeway paragraph, last paragraph
If the police set up a "checkpoint" then that is directly going to delay packets. Obviously that changes latency. That has nothing to do with bandwidth though. The same with "data has to pause for a security inspection or take detours through multiple locations". I'm not sure why you quoted this part.
But let's consider a freeway that goes down to one lane (or alternatively that we 10x the number of cars we have), which is a bandwidth change. Well, we're sending a fixed amount of cars per second down the freeway. If they can't fit into one lane, then the whole thing will immediately back up and we'll lose connection entirely. It doesn't affect latency, it drops the connection.