Round-Trip Time (RTT)
Round-trip time is the total time for a packet to travel to a destination and for its acknowledgement to return.
3 min readReviewed Jul 2026TTML Editorial
Also known as RTT
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RTT is the technical name for what most players call ping. It is dominated by physical distance plus queueing at each hop.
A single high-RTT sample means little on its own. Consistency (jitter) and loss matter more than an isolated spike.
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