[PD] Burst of packets.

[Mario Mey]

This night I'll start doing my spectacle again (the last perform like 
this was two years ago), where I use my MEH-SYSTEM. So... I don't have 
time to do some TCP tests right now...

However, I did a some of them! (anxiety) With no luck, no success. I 
have to use the MobMuPlat version that Daniel Iglesia sent me that can 
handle netreceive, netsend, oscparce and oscformat. But, as I said 
before, no success: I had some errors at the console. I maybe go on 
testing it tomorrow.

Now, I have some doubts about TCP:

Sometimes, when a packet is lost, some other packets are too, for a few 
seconds. If I send a message over TCP... I think there is guaranteed to 
arrive to destiny... but, if the situation is the same, will this packet 
arrive late? I mean, will this message wait to arrive to the server? 
Because, as I record/play loops... maybe it's better to lost the message 
and know about this... than the message arrives 1 second later.

I repeat, I didn't use the system over TCP, so there will be more tests 
and maybe they will resolve my doubt.

Thank you.




El 17/02/16 a las 20:33, Chris McCormick escribió:
> Hi Mario,
>
> On 18/02/16 05:07, Mario Mey wrote:
>> A buddy from a group suggested me to send "bursts of packets" instead
>> only one packet... considering this packet as important.
>
> If you need guaranteed, ordered delivery from one machine to another 
> then you should use TCP sockets instead of UDP sockets. Since you seem 
> to be sending directly between two machines this is ideal. In Pd it is 
> trivial to set up a TCP connection with [netsend] and [netreceive]. 
> TCP has slightly larger overhead than UDP because of the ACKs but I 
> think over WiFi you will not notice the difference.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Chris.
>