06-05-2020, 03:26 PM
I personally think there needs to at least be either:
- Network test of individuals, particularly new folks
- "Your latency" reporting: I think this has been completely abandoned, as I have not seen a latency report in months
- Mandatory location info in peoples' profiles, so folks can figure out if that guy from half way around the globe with a crappy Internet connection who just popped into the session (with his guitar cranked) is why everything has gone to hell. I think less than 10% of folks are filling in their location info, or they fill info that doesn't mean anything to those outside of their country, other than they are not in my country...
All of these are to help set YOUR expectations for JamKazam and its performance, not to invade on anyone's privacy. You don't need to be a network architect, cyber sleuth, or speed-of-light physicist, but I know that from my location in the Philadelphia, PA, USA region of the globe I can expect reasonable performance with others on the East coast USA, and maybe to middle of the country or Eastern Canada; but anything West coast or UK is probably a stretch, especially if there's wildly varying total latency between players. I wont join an open session that is outside of those bounds, mainly out of courtesy to the host (because my latency adversely affects all others in the session), and to avoid my own frustrations with the session. I think more folks should follow this approach, and I think JamKazam would be more enjoyable for all.
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- Network test of individuals, particularly new folks
- "Your latency" reporting: I think this has been completely abandoned, as I have not seen a latency report in months
- Mandatory location info in peoples' profiles, so folks can figure out if that guy from half way around the globe with a crappy Internet connection who just popped into the session (with his guitar cranked) is why everything has gone to hell. I think less than 10% of folks are filling in their location info, or they fill info that doesn't mean anything to those outside of their country, other than they are not in my country...
All of these are to help set YOUR expectations for JamKazam and its performance, not to invade on anyone's privacy. You don't need to be a network architect, cyber sleuth, or speed-of-light physicist, but I know that from my location in the Philadelphia, PA, USA region of the globe I can expect reasonable performance with others on the East coast USA, and maybe to middle of the country or Eastern Canada; but anything West coast or UK is probably a stretch, especially if there's wildly varying total latency between players. I wont join an open session that is outside of those bounds, mainly out of courtesy to the host (because my latency adversely affects all others in the session), and to avoid my own frustrations with the session. I think more folks should follow this approach, and I think JamKazam would be more enjoyable for all.
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