What are latency and jitter?
According to www.webopedia.com, latency is defined as, “In networking, the amount of time it takes a packet to travel from source to destination. Together, latency and bandwidth define the speed and capacity of a network.” Suppose you have a garden hose delivering water from the water spigot to your petunias. Latency is essentially the delay from when the water goes in one end of a hose and to when it comes out the other end. Even if the hose is very thick, that is, has a high bandwidth, the length of the hose determines how long it takes (the latency) to actually see the water begin to flow. VoIP is a two way connection. Water has to go into the hose both at the spigot end and the petunia end, and it has to travel all the way through the hose. The hose has to be both thick enough to carry the required quantity of water and short enough so that you do not have to wait too long for the water (speech) to reach the other end. So, if you have an Internet connection that goes across the Atl
