Multiuser - ballpark figures?

On 11/28/06, Gene Endrody wrote:
>I think I'm stating the obvious but I'm assuming you've
taken into 
>account that messages to the server are then distributed
out to the 
>8-25 users in the room....one message uploaded means the
server will 
>be sending 8-25 messages out to the users in the room.
Not if you do it right. 
If you do a repeat-broadcast model of every incoming packet,
you will 
quickly run out of headroom.

Better to think of it as a connection to each client. Data
comes in. 
You update state information. Then send an update to each
client.
The packet flow is relatively constant.

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