Latency<\/a>\u00a0is a very crucial key element that contributes to the speed of any network. The term refers to a measurement of the time it takes for a data packet to travel between two points. This is often called \u201clatency\u201d or \u201cround-trip time,\u201d and a low latency network connection is one that generally experiences small delay times \u2013 a high latency connection generally suffers from long delays. Not keeping latency spikes to a minimum will endanger the reliability of a whole network. When latency is too high,\u00a0problems with VoIP<\/a>\u00a0and video conferences are likely to arise; furthermore, transmission errors can prevent images from loading. So it\u2019s clear that latency issues might push the capacities of any IT department to the limit, present challenges for entire business strategies and can become a serious concern.<\/p>\n Latency is always expressed in milliseconds and there are two metrics that express latency. The most known measure of latency is called \u201cround trip time\u201d (RTT); this is the time it takes for a packet to get from one point on the network to another. The alternative measurement is called \u201ctime to first byte\u201d (TTFB); this records the time difference between the moment the first part of a packet left and the time that it arrived at the destination.<\/p>\n If sysadmins experience high latency, that\u2019s for sure nothing they should live with: Monitoring and testing can be the answer. A\u00a0latency test<\/a>\u00a0is like the little brother of a comprehensive monitoring. You will gain insights about problems that may exist. However, these are always selective and without concrete significance; in the end, you don\u2019t really know where a solution should start.<\/p>\n A monitoring solution like\u00a0PRTG<\/a>\u00a0is able to always keep an eye on all QoS parameters. Latency, packet loss, jitter, and the\u00a0Mean Opinion Score<\/a>\u00a0are monitored literally all the time. So if something goes wrong, you will get notified at once. PRTG is able to simultaneously monitor servers, routers, and switches, so you can immediately recognize the causes of latency issues or other network problems.<\/p>\n In PRTG, sensors are the basic monitoring elements. And when it comes to latency, we have more than one good solution; here are just three examples of sensors that will help you to deal with latency issues:<\/p>\n Published on July 30, 2020 | By Patrick Gebhardt How to quickly monitor the latency of your network with PRTG Latency\u00a0is a very crucial key element that contributes to the speed of any network. The term refers to a measurement of the time it takes for a data packet to travel between two points. This […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6753,"featured_media":23703,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[200],"tags":[202,201,177],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asdafrica.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23713"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asdafrica.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asdafrica.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asdafrica.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6753"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asdafrica.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23713"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/asdafrica.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23720,"href":"https:\/\/asdafrica.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23713\/revisions\/23720"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asdafrica.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asdafrica.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asdafrica.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asdafrica.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Nothing you should live with
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