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Originally Posted by dpeterson3
Also, it may bog down the network a little.
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Hmmm. The DS to Dashboard packets are fixed length and I'm assuming the same is true for the Robot to DS packets (I'll sniff them tommorrow to confirm).
The DS to Dashboard packet is always 1018 bytes IIRC and filled with zeros (or maybe garbage) if you don't send any user data.
I believe that UDP and a regular packet flow are used to insure that the packet flow for all 6 robots is both sufficient and equal. There are no layer 3 re-transmissions, although retransmissions may occur at the layer 1 radio protocols transparent to the layer 2 and 3 protocols.