This counter reports how many probes were sent and received a response after more than csOrionPingCtlTimeOut seconds had already elapsed, and the description notes these late responses are not counted in csOrionPingResultsTimeOuts. An admin watches it to distinguish genuinely lost probes from ones that simply arrived slower than the configured timeout window. For example, a test showing several csOrionPingResultsLates entries alongside a moderate csOrionPingResultsTimeOuts count suggests a path experiencing variable, sometimes excessive, latency rather than outright packet loss.