Hi everyone, There's this idea that seems pretty much ubiquitous in SL now, which is that everyone can help reduce sim lag by not setting their maximum bandwidth about 500 kbps. I want to get everyone's reaction to this, because to me it sounds like a myth.
I think the logic that people are following is that since you're not downloading the textures as fast from the server, it puts a lower load on it. But you still have to download the same amount of data, and does it really make that much of a difference if you do it in 5 seconds instead of 20? I could maybe understand lag being more "bursty" with higher bandwidths, but it seems like if you have a fairly busy sim where avatars are teleporting in or moving around frequently, having lower bandwidth settings increases the chances of your download overlapping with someone else's, so the overall load on the server evens out. Also, it seems like it would be trivial to have the servers monitor and throttle their download requests to prevent getting overloaded from client texture requests. What are all your thoughts on this? Thanks, Colin Kern _______________________________________________ Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/SLDev Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting privileges
