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

[Daniel Aquino]

hm is the default settings setup to work like that?

On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 1:04 PM, Lee Salzman <lsalzman1 at cox.net> wrote:
> 515 bytes is not a problem. The problem is when you are streaming huge
> amounts of reliable data, trying to use ENet like it were TCP. You get most
> bang for your buck when a lot of the packets are unreliable, and they are
> under the MTU size so that ENet doesn't have to force them reliable to
> fragment them.
>
> Lee
>
> Daniel Aquino wrote:
>>
>> <= 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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