How much jitter is normal?

[lancer420]

Whenever i run a speed test, I never drop below advertised speeds even during peak times, but i always have one millisecond of jitter. Perhaps I'm being unrealistic, but with a wired computer connected to an FTTH ISP, I feel like i should never have any jitter at all. Is there any way to fix this? And will this affect multiplayer games and other tasks? Thanks!

 

[shmoochie]

Normally it would depend on your ping, but 1ms jitter is so low that it doesn't even matter. You would never be able to tell a 1ms difference.

 

[jsmithepa]

I feel like i should never have any jitter at all

I say u have a rosy expectation.

The basic of how tcp/ip works, specially once you "get out" to the Internet, between you and destination, there is a "web" of highways that by design, is constantly re-configuring itself, due to failures or traffic loads, and this is not under users' control, that's just how the Internet is. Good thing is, is very resilient, is self-healing, high reliability. Bad news is, you are not guarantee any kind of latency. If u want guaranteed latency, u will have to buy a dedicated$$$ connection, bypassing the Internet to your destination.

 

[lancer420]

I feel like i should never have any jitter at all

I say u have a rosy expectation.

The basic of how tcp/ip works, specially once you "get out" to the Internet, between you and destination, there is a "web" of highways that by design, is constantly re-configuring itself, due to failures or traffic loads, and this is not under users' control, that's just how the Internet is. Good thing is, is very resilient, is self-healing, high reliability. Bad news is, you are not guarantee any kind of latency. If u want guaranteed latency, u will have to buy a dedicated$$$ connection, bypassing the Internet to your destination.

That makes sense, except the jitter is just on the test server and back. A test server that I'm pretty close to.

 

[lancer420]

Normally it would depend on your ping, but 1ms jitter is so low that it doesn't even matter. You would never be able to tell a 1ms difference.

Okay, Thanks!