Hi there I'm not sure exactly where to post this. Either here or in the networking section, or somewhere else .. Please let me know if this is not the right place
I don't know under which domain my problem fits under
Basically what I'm trying to do is upload a datastream to a location quite far away. Halfway across the world really .. and what I'm trying to figure out is what I need in order to achieve this. I don't have any network experience but i do know the basics of say building a website for example and hosting it on my local computer
What I'm trying to figure out is that if I build a server and have it establish a direct connection to another server, what can I do to substantially reduce the latency of this datastream? Or in other words what can I do to reduce the time it takes for the receiving server to receive the data? Keep in mind that it is a never-ending datastream I am trying to send and the latency is very important.
Would a CDN be required to solve this problem?
Please keep in mind that I am trying to get the latency as low as theoretically possible. Enough so that it is just slightly behind the time u would measure if u were measuring the travel time of actual light itself reaching that location
I know of the ping measurement tool on wondernetwork and it is quite useful but I don't know how applicable it is given that ISP's tend to send and receive data in both the cheapest and fastest way they can get away with ... Or at least I assume anyways
Are there any network tools available I can use to optimize the connection itself so that the path the server takes to send the data is the lowest latency possible? Or is this not within my control?
Thank you so for much for your help and sorry for being a noob. If the question itself doesn't really have an answer and you know some networking or internet related books I can read in attempting to solve this problem please recommend them!!
I don't know under which domain my problem fits under
Basically what I'm trying to do is upload a datastream to a location quite far away. Halfway across the world really .. and what I'm trying to figure out is what I need in order to achieve this. I don't have any network experience but i do know the basics of say building a website for example and hosting it on my local computer
What I'm trying to figure out is that if I build a server and have it establish a direct connection to another server, what can I do to substantially reduce the latency of this datastream? Or in other words what can I do to reduce the time it takes for the receiving server to receive the data? Keep in mind that it is a never-ending datastream I am trying to send and the latency is very important.
Would a CDN be required to solve this problem?
Please keep in mind that I am trying to get the latency as low as theoretically possible. Enough so that it is just slightly behind the time u would measure if u were measuring the travel time of actual light itself reaching that location
I know of the ping measurement tool on wondernetwork and it is quite useful but I don't know how applicable it is given that ISP's tend to send and receive data in both the cheapest and fastest way they can get away with ... Or at least I assume anyways
Are there any network tools available I can use to optimize the connection itself so that the path the server takes to send the data is the lowest latency possible? Or is this not within my control?
Thank you so for much for your help and sorry for being a noob. If the question itself doesn't really have an answer and you know some networking or internet related books I can read in attempting to solve this problem please recommend them!!
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