• Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca
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    3 months ago

    Perhaps something like time between key pressed and key released being abnormally high? Or erratic mouse movement?

    I know whenever a PC I’m using is being remotely controlled, the mouse jerks around instead of moving smoothly around the screen. I’d imagine that gets even worse with ping/more layers of remote connections.

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      3 months ago

      Yes but you need access to the culprit’s computer for the lag measurement.

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        3 months ago

        No. I’m talking about measuring the time in-between inputs being received over the remote connection. Purely observation from the receiver side of the connection.

        Network overhead + dropped and re-sent packets, introducing unusual lag in between commands/keystrokes.

        A key being pressed and key being released are two separate events that get transmitted separately and usually happen pretty close together. That gap getting larger, due to the long-distance connection introducing lag, could be what they were looking at.