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If you take a VOIP call, jitter there gets introduced because not all packets necessarilly get received in correctly timed intervals and you end up with a robotic sounding connection.

VOIP works via packets over UDP, and a traceroute of even a call from me to my next door neighbour will show the data packets hopping around the province a few times before ending up at their end. It's a much different animal than digital audio within a building along a wire or fibreoptic cable.

If I was sending my audio stream of Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables over "teh Intarweb" to Toronto and back before it made it to my speakers, I'd probably get some of the same issues.

Bren R.