Topic summary
Low-latency
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Latency (engineering).
Communications
Online games are sensitive to latency (lag), since fast response times to new events occurring during a game session are rewarded while slow response times may carry penalties. Due to a delay in transmission of game events, a player with a high-latency internet connection may show slow responses in spite of appropriate reaction time. This gives players with low-latency connections a technical advantage.