This often occurs in FPS or similar games that have a large number of people per multiplayer server.
Rubberbanding is a term used to describe a player's random or jerky movement in a multiplayer game when they're experiencing high latency.
This is extremely annoying, especially with Command & Conquer 4: Tiberian Twilight and online games with optimized-paced ‘twitch’ mechanics. Rubberbanding is one of the major problems most gamers encounter when playing online games.
