Reduction of Internet latency in sessions...

[StuartR]

Latency along the internet backbone has dropped a lot in the last 5 years, with upgrades to fiber and 10Gig copper all over the country, However, it's the "Last Mile" that's killing it for a lot of people.

Regionally distributed servers make sense, but they have to be managed! Adds cost?

Improvements in the queing process could be very helpful - 30 - 40 ms latency is not a huge problem if it's the same for everyone! You get much more delay than that playing onstage in a large hall or small arena. Who here has ever played in a marching band?

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Never played in a marching band but you make an interesting point there.

I'd suspect we'd have to pay for the upgrade in service and perhaps the current p2p solution will remain in place as a free option although all members in a given session would have to be at the same service level.