Network speed options

[Vlerkies]

Hi Folks

 

In the GUI manual pg 208 yo have the options to select the network speed best for your connection which is straightforward enough.

 

Our adsl connections here are not as fast (or wide) as in Europe/US.

 

One player will hast and the rest join on his connection.

 

The host has a adsl connection (4mb down / 50kb up) and we manage fine with 2 or 3 players.

 

I am trying to understand the data transfer rates from the host machine to the connected clients. (considering that all clients join and are loaded up and in the pit beofre the host starts the mission)

Is there any value in the clients reducing the connection speeds on their side as per pg 208 of the GUI manual to allow for maybe 6-8 players without issue.

 

What I have noticed as well is sometimes when there are 4 players connected, the server disappears from the multiplayer server list.

[ENO]

At this point ALL clients and Hosts NEED to have their connection speed set to LAN.

 

I can't get into all the details because I don't know the technical side of it- but this applies to EVERYONE in multiplayer right now and this is a well known fact.

[Vlerkies]

Thx ENO, that solves that then.

[ENO]

If you continue to have issues then there are a couple other tricks that we've learned along the way... I'll point you in the right direction- but if it's working then we'll leave it at that!