[ENet-discuss] ENet performance with big packets (~1MB) is very poor, am I missing something?

[Daniel Aquino]

<= 515 bytes wouldn't be a problem would it ?

That seems to be the biggest packet in my game...



On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 10:00 PM, Lee Salzman <lsalzman1 at cox.net> wrote:
> To say that is total and utter abuse of ENet would be an understatement. :)
>
> Lee
>
> Taneli Rautio wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've implemented a system which sends webcam frames from a client to a
>> server over TCP (Boost.asio library). I decided to give performance boost to
>> my application by changing the protocol to UDP with ENet. However, my
>> application is very slow with ENet: the server receives about a frame per
>> second although I am sending about 15-20 packets per second. Since my TCP
>> implementation runs almost in real time, I'd like to know if I am missing
>> something with ENet or is the UDP just a wrong protocol to send big packets?
>>
>> The client and the server code is basically copy&paste from the ENet
>> tutorial, and the client and the server both run in their own threads so
>> other things (i.e. showing the image on the screen) is not causing this. So
>> far I've done only testing with localhost so the network speed is not an
>> issue here either. The packets (frames) are quite big, a little over 900000
>> bytes.
>>
>> -Taneli
>
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