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<div>I'm experiencing MASSIVE packet loss.. only about 2 in 10 packets are getting through from the client to the server.</div>
<div>Server to client works just fine. But when I try sending unreliable packets from the client to the server, only 20% or so go through.</div>
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<div>The packets aren't even big.. For testing, all I'm doing is sending over a unique number each packet, that increments in the form of a counter, and printing it to the console in both applications (client and server).</div>
<div>On the client side, I see 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12 etc...</div>
<div>but on the server all I'm recieving is: 3,11, etc..</div>
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<div>The weird thing is.. if I do this back the other way (server to client), it works fine.</div>
<div>Also, if I use ENET_PACKET_FLAG_RELIABLE when sending from the client to the server, it works fine too. I'd have thought that if I were getting that much packet loss,</div>
<div>that it would take ages for the reliable packets to send properly as well..</div>
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<div>Funnily enough, I only just noticed this, despite having played my game many times multiplayer. It's because I'm using the co-simulation design described by Lee here:</div>
<div><a href="http://lists.cubik.org/pipermail/enet-discuss/2008-March/000820.html">http://lists.cubik.org/pipermail/enet-discuss/2008-March/000820.html</a></div>
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<div>All the commands were being sent eventually (as they were stored in a queue).. but as that queue was always about 5 timesteps deep, the movement wasn't responsive at all.</div>
<div>I thought this was a bit strange, so did some testing, and discovered that it's because only 20% of packets are going through! If I send these inputs reliably, it works great,</div>
<div>although I don't want to, for the reasons outlined in the link above.</div>
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<div>I've tried a whole bunch of channels, even giving it it's own unique channel, but no change. I also tried sending the packets unsequenced. Nothing works except making them reliable.</div>
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<div>Any ideas at all what could be causing this?</div>
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<div>Thanks,</div>
<div>Ben.</div></div>