The discussion about the server browser got me thinking, and I can't figure out what rate is actually good for. Please correct if I'm wrong, which I probably am since I cant understand why it exists.
Rate limits the upload and download speed of the client to whatever it is set to. If the server or client tries to send and receive more packages than rate allows, we get choke. But isn't choke the same as loss in practice? Packages that should have gotten somewhere but didn't make it in time is the result of both loss and choke if I'm not mistaken, but when its choke its because of the rate being to low or updates being forced to high for the clients low rate (or the client just copied some made up "script" filled with 101s and commands that doesn't exist to give a nice placebo effect) and when its loss its because of the clients actual connection (or network, or server or whatever is in between, but we cant expect everything not to work) cant do whatever it is supposed to do. So what is wrong with my thoughts? Right now the only thing I see rate as is an unnecessary source of unnecessary problems. _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds
