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these days we become used to instant gratification whether it's ordering at a

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drive-thru looking up incredibly important information on the connected

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computer in your pocket or gaming with someone on the other side of the planet

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we expect lots of things to happen

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instantaneously but as much as our technology has advanced we're still

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fighting the dreaded problem of latency

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and no I'm not talking about your repressed Freud and desires what I mean

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by latency is the gap in time between some kind of input like a key press or

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turning your head in a VR headset and the system spitting out the appropriate

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response and this latency affects the way that you use tons of things in the

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real world but why don't electricity and

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radio waves travel super fast well yes

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they do in fact radio waves travel at the speed of light while electricity

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traveling through wire can go up to nearly the speed of light but the issue

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isn't with how quickly a signal goes from A to B instead latency is caused by

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processing times and since any kind of

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input to a computer has to be processed

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everything has at least some amount of

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latency this can be very noticeable in

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situations where a slow hard drive causes doing something simple like

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finding a picture on your computer to be agon singly slow or when a web page is

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designed poorly and you can't click on anything for a few seconds while it

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finishes rendering you've also probably

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noticed latency if

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uh well if you've ever watched an interview via satellite on a news

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channel where the subject takes a few seconds to start responding to the

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reporters questions often these kinds of

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latency won't completely screw up what you're trying to do I mean waiting an

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extra 15 seconds to look at that TPS report probably won't ruin your day but

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latency can be an absolute killer in

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other situations if you enjoy playing games online high Network latencies

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caused by processing at each point in the network can cause weird laggy

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behavior that can result in catastrophic in-game mishaps or even getting kicked

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off The Game Server completely you can

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learn more about latency in games up here and believe it or not the

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consequence of high latency can be even worse than getting fragged in csgo with

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car manufacturers increasingly installing backup cameras and some cars

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even completely ditching mirrors in favor of cameras such as this BMW I8 we

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were checking out last year and I'm wearing a lavalier microphone on me that

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will give you guys an exact idea of how how much delay there is between

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something happening and what's on the screen low

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latency is a must so that drivers can

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react to hazards in time even half a second delay could lead to a tragic

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accident so how do you cut down on latency other than just having a faster

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computer well in Computing context a common tactic is to use wires where

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possible instead of going Wireless a good example of this is how current VR

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headsets like the Rift and the HTC Vive

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rely on wired connections to a PC

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although these wires are cumbersome wireless tech typically has greater

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latency due to more complicated processing which could mean disorienting

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or nauseating display lag when you're in a virtual world this is sometimes called

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motion to Photon latency and if you're gaming online and you have a choice of

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servers pick the one geographically closest to you although electrical

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signals travel insanely quickly latency

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of a few hundred milliseconds can still be an issue when you're connecting to a

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farway server and that's enough to wreck your gaming experience in most cases

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there's also software and even special network adapters that push through data

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packets from your game before others so

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they won't be stuck waiting around for

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other application on your

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system some routers can even be configured to push packets to your

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system first to reduce latency if a few people on your network are rudely

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deciding that now is the time that they have to watch that episode on Netflix

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now of course you're never going to get rid of latency completely I mean there's

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even eye to brain latency since your brain needs time to make sense of

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whatever the heck you're looking at the goal is to get it down to an acceptable

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level that won't leave you frustrated or with a lawsuit on your hands because

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