IT lexicon Networking Jitter

Jitter

Networking På svenska → Updated: 2026-05-23

The variation in latency — packets arrive at different speeds, not always the same.

Matters most for real-time traffic: voice calls, video, gaming. Steady 80ms latency is better than latency bouncing between 30 and 130ms. Jitter buffers on the receiver compensate by waiting for stragglers.

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