On 1/30/02 6:15 PM, "Chris Dillman" <chrisd at plaidworld dot com> wrote:
>> I'm trying to implement file transfer over TCP/IP in my app and I've run
>> into a brick wall. The downloads are snail slow, say 10k/sec (locally.)
>> What's interesting is that as soon as I start moving my mouse around, they
>> pick up the pace - they zoom up to 300k/sec or so (still really slow, but
>> adequate.) When I keep my mouse idle, they drop down to the 10k/sec speed
>> again.
>>
>> Any ideas? And btw, does anyone have any suggestions for prebuilt sockets
>> to use? I'm currently using FileSocket 4. Has anyone had any good
>> experiences with other classes?
>
> You on a laptop?
> Do you have processor cycling turned on?
>
> That kind of things happens when Say playing a QT movie if you do.
>
> Also to smooth out the QT play back in RB you could add a timer
> that fired every so offten to keep the speed up.
>
> Could that work for you problem?
> Maybe?
I'm on a G4 Cube but I've experienced this on my brother's 733 mhz G4.
The timer thing worked! Although I need to make it fire off around every 3
ms. Are there any side effects to using this method? It just seems so
weird.
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