You want to see how this works, easy.
Get together with your squadies, all roll in same plane. Once your all up and flying in formation get each person to write the distance from him to the other planes around.
If connects are good all around, you'll see distances from 25 - 150.
If conncects are poor someone will show differnce 250 or up.
IE if you look back & see joe at 400, he'll look up and see you at 650.
We fly an internet flight sim, yet half the people here have no clue about lag.
Tis a strange world.