Changing conditions can produce significant variations between user adjustments and the balance in wait times across a network, but on average you can predict the balance in wait times for a given user adjustment.

Choose, for instance, a user adjustment of 20 for all remote resources in a network and poll all the remote sites. When waiting time is short, less than 100 seconds, the highest and lowest EWTs for the application on the network stays within a range of approximately 20 seconds. When waiting time is long, more than 100 seconds, the highest and lowest EWTs for the application stays within a range of approximately 20 percent.