On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 11:41 AM, Ponzu <lee.po...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 1:06 PM, Thomas Grimshaw <t...@streamsense.net>wrote: > >> On 01/10/2010 18:04, Ponzu wrote: >> >>> Nobody has crappier internet than I (satellite). >>> >> >> Well, we're really talking about transfer caps, here, rather than >> available bandwidth. >> >> Available bandwidth can be appeased by the network slider. But transfer >> caps are the biggest problem, and pretty much everyone in Australia is >> affected, and a lot of people on the less decent ISP's in the UK. >> >> > and me. 17GB per 30 day period, in a sliding window. > > Point is still that caps will be increased as time goes on (or decreased, > as international economic system collapses, but taht is a differnt sim). >
Devs concerned about crazy-limited connections shouldn't worry about the small changes that may someday come with a different image CODEC. They can cut texture transfers in half -today- at the expense of texture blurriness. A test should be straightforward, if anyone feels strongly enough to take a whack at it. Add a "texture fidelity" slider that scales the measure the viewer uses to decide what discard level it wants. See where you still find it tolerable. -- Brian McGroarty | Linden Lab Sent from my Newton MP2100 via acoustic coupler
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