ID:95593
 
Applies to:Dream Daemon
Status: Open

Issue hasn't been assigned a status value.
It would be nice to have the ability to throttle bandwidth to users in a game. This would come in handy for larger games with many players constantly connecting and disconnecting.

The current issue is that hosts with limited bandwidth have problems when a user connects and have to download all of the resources. They will start to pull down the resources and max out the hosts connection, causing the other players lag. It would be nice if DD had a feature where you could tell it to not permit users more that say 30KB/s worth of upload.

Considering I am hosting via Linux, would be nice to have it implemented into the Linux version if at all possible. I realize Linux has options for bandwidth throttling, but they're more of an advanced feature and not very easy for the basic user to configure.

DreamDaemon game.dmb -bandwidth 30KB

Or something of the sort.
Just tossing this out there, you could always use client/preload_rsc and upload the resources elsewhere.