[ENet-discuss] Some ENet issues

[Blair Holloway]

Generally, no. 500ms should be adequate; pinging more frequently is just
going to take up more bandwidth from ping responses (reliable acks).

What are you using for comparison as a "valid" ping? The output of your
platform's ping command?

- Blair

On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 3:25 PM, Philip Bennefall <philip at u7142039.fsdata.se
> wrote:

>  Hi Blair,
>
> Do you think it'd be a good idea to decrease the ping interval? Maybe to
> 200 milliseconds?
>
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Philip Bennefall
> ----- Original Message -----
> *From:* Blair Holloway <thynameisblair at chaosandcode.com>
> *To:* enet-discuss at cubik.org
> *Sent:* Wednesday, July 14, 2010 7:06 AM
> *Subject:* Re: [ENet-discuss] Some ENet issues
>
> By default, Enet sends (reliable) ping packets every 500ms, if no other
> reliable traffic was sent in that interval. If you're sending reliable
> packets 30 times per second instead of 2 times, it's possible Enet is
> deriving a more accurate average round trip time.
>
> - Blair
>
> On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 2:45 PM, Philip Bennefall <
> philip at u7142039.fsdata.se> wrote:
>
>>  Hi Lee and others,
>>
>> I am having some minor issues with ENet.
>>
>> First, I'm trying to get the average up and downstream for each peer by
>> using the appropriate data fields in the peer structure but it always
>> returns 0 for some reason. The same seems to be true with the host structure
>> as well.
>>
>> Second, when I look at the average round trip time for a peer, this value
>> is only correct if I send out a few reliable packets. on localhost, for
>> instance, I ran a test where I sent 30 unreliable packets every second. I
>> poll the network every 5 milliseconds, but got an average round trip of 44
>> milliseconds. When I changed it to reliable packets, however, I got an
>> average of 12 which seems much more reasonable. Is this intended behavior?
>>
>> Thanks in advance for any help.
>>
>> Kind regards,
>>
>> Philip Bennefall
>>
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