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 New page: '''Jitter'''  Jitter is a term used to mean the variation in lag over time.   In very simple terms, if you were to ping a network host 2 times and each time it responded in 100 millise...  | 
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Revision as of 19:44, 27 January 2009
Jitter
Jitter is a term used to mean the variation in lag over time.
In very simple terms, if you were to ping a network host 2 times and each time it responded in 100 milliseconds, we could say that its jitter is 0 ms. If instead, the 2 ping times were 75 and 100 milliseconds, we could say the jitter is 25 ms. Of course the jitter calculations performed in BZFlag are a little more complex than that, incorporating averaging and smoothing over time.
Coders interested in jitter in BZFlag's context may wish to study LagInfo.cxx from the BZ source.