latency

Overview ¶

latency offers functions to sort a list of gateways (or in the future, bridges) by latency from the client's point of view.

This will not be exposed in the mainstream clients yet, since we're unsure how the manual override will interact with the automated gateway selection, and a mass-deployment of the load balancer is still not in sight.

That said, it can be useful to allow advanced users to easily check by themselves if the gateways suggested by menshen are indeed what they can reach with a lesser latency.

The android and desktop clients can also try to schedule periodic measurements whenever they're in an OFF state. We need to make sure to pass them only non-overloaded gateways.