[sldev] Client bandwidth and server lag

[Tigro Spottystripes]

Colin Kern escreveu:
> On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 1:08 PM, Joel Foner<joel.foner at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>>> That said, an awful lot of people crank the bandwidth up to 1.5mbps
>>> because they figure they have a 1.5mbit connection or better. That's
>>> often a mistake. Most ISPs overstate the capacity their networks by a
>>> good margin, and it's very unlikely that even a 3 mbit DSL connection
>>> provides highly reliable 1.5mbit downstream.
>>>       
>> But for most on cable or fiber it's only a part of what's available :)  Is
>> there a reason it's capped at 1.5Mbps?
>> For what it's worth, an easy place to check your actual bandwidth is here
>> http://www.speedtest.net/.
>> Joel
>>     
>
> I noticed in Snowglobe the cap is much higher (6 mbps, IIRC).
>
> I have heard some people saying that lowering your bandwidth helps
> with "rubber-banding", which I think makes more sense.  If your
> bandwidth is too high, it might overload your own internet connection,
> causing latency problems.
>
> Colin
>   
With me, somthing I've noticed, usually when I have any noticeable
packetloss, if I move the bandwidth throttle all the way down for a few
(or several) seconds, the packetloss goes away, once it is gone I can
move the throttle back up and packetloss doesn't seem to return (either
until another login, or at least for a long time), there a few rare
times where doing this doesn't have any effect on the PL though, I
imagine that it has a different cause in these cases (I haven't tried
Snowlobe yet)