Board:   [fsxNet] fsxNet Network Discussion
Subject: Re: Hub 3 rate limiting
From:    deon(21:2/116)
Date:    Tue Mar 24, 2026 09:58

  Re: Re: Hub 3 rate limiting
  By: fusion to deon on Mon Mar 23 2026 07:18 pm

Howdy,

 > did you have any measurable degredation of service with the connection
 > frequency? or did it just bother you?

I think about scaling in everything I do - and while I doubt scaling will be a (big) issue in this (dying) hobby I still apply those principles. Thus there is no reason for (potentially) everybody to poll to get mail, when a) mail flow is low and b) it would be sent to them anyway when there some.

There was occassionally issues, especially with me debugging something, and the port being hounded by another system. I was debugging a "too many transactions" issue being reported by the DB that lead me to implement this.

But it was also bothering me - I think somebody who polls every minute or so to pick up mail, when their system is capable of getting mail from me via the designed "CRASH" capability when i have mail for them is riduculous and a waste of time.

And while I could live with that, its the systems that are on auto-pilot, who fall into the set and forget category I figured wouldnt mind, nor notice that their frequent polls were unsuccessful anyway, thus leaving free "slots" for those who do.


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