OK I anly going to do this once. I am pleading with all of you who are toying with the idea of single character send and receive please stop. I only have one thing to point out at the moment. Who here doesn't complain about lag on a mud the way they are now. And this is with telnet sending a line per packek. Now imagine what will happen if you send out a packet for each character that the user types. Ok I am not sure of tcp/ip packet size but for the sake of argument lets say that the average packet size is 30 bytes. Ok now lets also say that the average line that a user types is about maybe 10 bytes. Ok this averages out to be 40 bytes for every 10 sent. Now suppose that the same 30 byte packet accompanied every byte this is 31 bytes for every 1 sent. Now if we ratio this number we come up with 310 bytes for the same 10 byte line. Ok now lets say that an average mud user types 1 line every 2 seconds. and the average mud has about 10 users on at any given time. Now this comes out to a loss of 3100 bytes every 2 seconds. or this is 93,000 extra bytes per minute. And 5.58M extra bytes per hr. Ok now mind you I think these numbers are low. But for arguments sake lets say that there 500 muds in the U.S.A.(I know there are more). This is now an extra 2.5+Gig extra bytes per hr on the net. Now sure 2.5Gig sounds like a low number but think about it what is the average line you type on a mud? Do you type more than 5 characters per second? Does your mud have more than 10 users on most of the time? And lastly do you really think there are only 500 muds in the U.S.A.? If you think about it this number is really small. I am just using these numbers as an example and the real ones are proably much larger. Now think about it if lag is bad now what will it be like with all these extra packets and bytes flying around the net? I realze that this will proably upset some people and am willing and happy to hear comments and complaints. -- Matthew Churilla Duquesne University CCIT User Consultant E-Mail Addresses ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- churilla@noether.mathcs.duq.edu Math\Computer Science Account churilla@next.duq.edu CCIT Next Account churill5624@duq3.cc.duq.edu Duquesne University E-Mail Account ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug." -Mark Twain ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --TAA05912.810947992/sinclair--
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