[freenet-support] Freenet's impact on online gaming

[Julien Cornuwel]

Hi,

I'm sure a lot of users are interested about that. I've got 128KB/s
upload and Freenet limited to 40. Freenet runs on a dedicated computer
so resources consumption is not an issue. For normal operations, I've
got no problems. But when it comes to online gaming, weird things happen :

Other players see my ping as normal (a bit high but nothing I should
worry about) but I've got lags and sometimes, I completely loose the
connection. The game freezes, other players yell at me, I stop Freenet
and everything's back to normal.

For now, the only solution is to stop the node each time I want to play.
Not a good thing for the network. I can try to reduce Freenet's bandwith
even more, but I don't think it will help much.

Any thoughts ?

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