FRC 2012 Beta (Team 1718's First Observations)

[linuxboy]

I really like the new # tab on the driver station as it allows you to see some of the more nitty gritty technical details. The trip time and lost packets are measurements similar to that you would receive from the output of a ping command.

Trip Time is the time it takes for a packet to go from the Driver Station to the Robot and is measured in milliseconds. Lower is better when it comes to trip time, also known as latency. Having a high latency is the cause for lag, so if the robot is lagging in response to the driver station this would be a good place to check. The normal latency at competitions is on the order of a few ms.

For anyone that doesn't know packet loss is it is how many packets don't make it to the robot. The Driver Station doesn't send them again because by the time it knows it didn't make it, it is no longer useful.