gpg: Signature made Tue Apr 29 17:35:11 2008 UTC using DSA key ID E43DA450
gpg: Good signature from "Matthew John Toseland <toad@amphibian.dyndns.org>"
On Tuesday 29 April 2008 16:36, Julien Cornuwel wrote:
> Matthew Toseland a écrit :
> > On Tuesday 29 April 2008 11:56, Julien Cornuwel wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I'm sure a lot of users are interested about that. I've got 128KB/s
> >> upload and Freenet limited to 40. Freenet runs on a dedicated computer
> >> so resources consumption is not an issue. For normal operations, I've
> >> got no problems. But when it comes to online gaming, weird things
happen :
> >
> > 1 megabit upload?
>
> Yep. 14 down, 1 up.
What's the fastest download speed you've seen? That's a seriously asymmetric
connection...
>
> >> Other players see my ping as normal (a bit high but nothing I should
> >> worry about) but I've got lags and sometimes, I completely loose the
> >> connection. The game freezes, other players yell at me, I stop Freenet
> >> and everything's back to normal.
> >
> > :|
> >
> > This would be easier if we had a rabbit icon.
>
> Not for me (the node is on another box), but maybe for others.
Sure, again I'm optimising the common case. :)
>
> >> For now, the only solution is to stop the node each time I want to play.
> >> Not a good thing for the network. I can try to reduce Freenet's bandwith
> >> even more, but I don't think it will help much.
> >>
> >> Any thoughts ?
> >
> > The current bandwidth limiting code is not completely accurate. It only
> > throttles data packets: not resends, not normal messages.
>
> And you think it could create such long spikes ? Last time I forgot to
> stop it, my account had been silent for almost a minute until I stop the
> node...
Hmmm, one minute is over the top, I accept that ... long lived spikes can be
caused by resending a lot of data to a peer (usually opennet) which has
serious MTU problems... I dunno what else...
