What is ping and packet loss?
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Others have answered the question really well, so here’s a bonus explanation of a third related idea:
Sometimes, when talking about ping and packet loss, we also talk about ‘jitter’. Ping is how long another computer takes to reply when you send it a message asking it to reply. ‘Jitter’ is how much that reply time changes each time you do a ping.
So if you ping a computer and it replies in 15 milliseconds, and then you ping it again and it replies in 500 milliseconds, and then the third time it replies in 15 milliseconds again… you have jitter.
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