Hi,

the thing is this:
The networking of my game works relatively good (using java and udp (DatagramSocket)), but I have an issue when testing it with my friends over Skype or Teamspeak and I don´t have an idea why that is so.
We are connected using hamachi (it simulates a LAN-connection) and there is no lagging at all in the game, but every time the client tries to send data to the server, skype skips a some millisecs, causing great lagging so I´m not able to understand what my friend is saying at all.

For me it looks like sending a package over udp takes relatively long and blocks skype from using the connection in this time.
If you need some code, calling the method looks like this:

data = new byte[....];
....
DatagramPacket sendPacket = new DatagramPacket(data,data.length,HOST_IP,SERVER_PORT);
socket.send(sendPacket);

The maximum size of an udp-package is 1024 in my application; is this to big?
Or is there another, better way of sending packets using udp?


Hope you have suggestions on this,
thx in advance

1024 bytes is too long[/quote]

Well, 1024 is the maximum, usually those packets are not so big (150 bytes or so).
But thx anyway, i will run tests as soon as possible and post the resuluts.

ok, I changed the maximum size to 310 and it indeed works, but still not as good as I wanted it to be.
Maybe i will consider splitting the packets to 2 or 3 more if they meet the new maximum size.
Still thx, I really thougt 1024 bytes would be little enough by far...