For me, the latency/jitter manifested as audio/video sync issues while streaming, "poor connection" warnings when video conferencing from home, and gaming lag when playing with friends on the east coast. I tried adjust the delay on my TV to compensate for the sync issue, but it wasn't consistent so I had to adjust it constantly if I wanted things to match. My video conference is over VPN, which generally adds latency to the network. I can't control having to use a VPN, so I had to try and minimize the baseline latency it was working off of. There was no practical solution for gaming because the game had to be hosted near me to improve my ping, thereby hosing the east coasters.
Evan is 100% correct in that you should target slower speeds on the provider with the best latency. The only way to improve all these things for us was to switch over to the fiber recently installed in our neighborhood. For us, they only offer one speed: gigabit. Everything else on that network was old fashioned copper phone wire and physics says light/fiber will be faster than signals sent over copper (which cable is too).
My mistake in my original rebuttal was I applied my own experience of having to get gig to get on the lower ping fiber. I forgot Verizon has different fiber tiers over that way.... although YMMV.
Evan is 100% correct in that you should target slower speeds on the provider with the best latency. The only way to improve all these things for us was to switch over to the fiber recently installed in our neighborhood. For us, they only offer one speed: gigabit. Everything else on that network was old fashioned copper phone wire and physics says light/fiber will be faster than signals sent over copper (which cable is too).
My mistake in my original rebuttal was I applied my own experience of having to get gig to get on the lower ping fiber. I forgot Verizon has different fiber tiers over that way.... although YMMV.
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"Here, at last, is the cure for texting while driving. The millions of deaths which occur every year due to the iPhone’s ability to stream the Kim K/Ray-J video in 4G could all be avoided, every last one of them, if the government issued everyone a Seventies 911 and made sure they always left the house five minutes later than they’d wanted to. It would help if it could be made to rain as well. Full attention on the road. Guaranteed." -Jack Baruth