Surprised people still have pay as you go on internet.

Will try and get Jey to have a look at this.

mmm, something is awfully wrong if your getting 256mbps in freemarket (or anywhere really).

I'm currently sitting in free market and while it is a bit higher than id like, the average is about 200-250kbps (26-30KB/s), a little under 1/1000 times less than what you are experiencing.


If you truly are getting 256mbps in freemarket from ss, id love for you to provide a /debug net after sitting here for a minute or so (altho even 1 sec would produce a clear reading considering the extreme bandwidth you appear to be experiencing).


As for your suggestion to optimize it, this wouldn't put a dent on the bandwidth, those strings are not transferred 50 times per seconds here, they are once every now and then.

Optimizing them out would imply sending a dictionary, which would mean sending the client the whole list of every item names every reconnection,
or hardcoding it in the client which would in turn mean a client patch every time a new item is added,
or implementing a cached dictionary kind of thing, which would take a fair bit of time and testing and add latency to the first time the client would see any item id.
All that would probably amount to less than 0.01% bandwidth reduction since thats not where the bandwidth get used.

The reason freemarket use a fair amount of bandwidth is the sob positions updates. If we were still on c1 network code but with the current server performance for that specific scenario, the bandwidth would be around 6 times higher. The reason it was lower on c1 was that the server was a lot slower (and incidentally everything had a 300-500ms lag by default) server now run 10 times faster with a minimum forced lag of 100ms (even tho the server is faster, it wait at least 100ms before sending data depending on priority / importance).

The network message representing most of the bandwidth in free market is the sobnewpos which is basically the position update for ships and other dynamic objects . planets and the likes rarely get that since they are "static" even if they do move, they follow a predetermined path. This sobnewpos message was already optimized just about as much as it could be without sacrificing sync and latency. The only reasonable improvements i could do to it, would be to increase the delay (which would mean youd see stuff rubberband / teleport more often if it turn or accelerate etc).

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Yeah but only because SS drained all their bandwidth allowance #tinfoilhat

lol

Does Australia even have 256mb internet Laz?

I live in Australia and I've never met anyone in my years of living here that pays based on how much data you use.

All our plans / contracts are for unlimited usage, but limited downloads.
Example: I get 1,000GB of downloads per month, and if I go over that then my speed is shaped from the 20Mbps I get, to 512kbps.