Does this work from Boston to Texas?

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An additional consideration on latency is that it can vary, a lot. Whereas in the Soundcloud demonstration above, the latency varies slowly over time, often in real use the latency between musicians can vary dramatically from one second to the next, even one network packet to the next. This is the "jitter". An easy analogy would be what traffic you would experience between Boston and Texas. Your audio information, flowing as packets over the internet, experience congestion and delays along the way, just like driving there does. There is an expected travel time (latency) plus or minus traffic you may experience (jitter). This jitter can be difficult to deal with, as we perceive it as being unable to jam together to a consistent beat. Personal tolerance of it, which is individual and/or subjective, is what matters.
Hope this helps,