A Hands-on Analysis of Latency Variation Using Wireshark

Introduction Network latency basically refers to the delay that happens when data travels from one system to another. This delay directly affects how fast applications respond. In this experiment, Wireshark is used to capture network packets and observe how latency behaves under low, medium, and heavy traffic conditions. The aim is to understand how increasing traffic impacts network performance in a practical way. Objectives To understand how latency can be measured using Wireshark To observe how network delay changes with different traffic levels To compare latency under low, medium, and heavy traffic To analyze latency using graphs for better understanding Reference Source: SharkFest – Finding the Latency About the source: This SharkFest session explains different ways to analyze latency using Wireshark, especially using timestamps and TCP stream analysis. It helped in understanding how to practically measure delay instead of just studying theory. Architecture of the W...