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 <[email protected] > 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 <[email protected]> > *To:* [email protected] > *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 < > [email protected]> 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 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> ENet-discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.cubik.org/mailman/listinfo/enet-discuss >> >> > ------------------------------ > > > Internal Virus Database is out of date. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 8.5.432 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/2662 - Release Date: 02/01/10 > 12:37:00 > > > _______________________________________________ > ENet-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.cubik.org/mailman/listinfo/enet-discuss > >
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