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Glossary: TCP/IP in Depth, Part 2

queueing delay

Time a packet spends waiting in a router's queue before the line can send it. In the 20 Mbit/s lab test it added 30 to 40 ms to the round trip; too much of it is bufferbloat.

Where the book teaches it

Related terms

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