7mb/s, Will it be an Issue?

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Originally Posted by JesseK

On the field in 2013 I witnessed the FMS peak at ~2Mb/s by itself for some reason, even though the FMS whitepaper calls out ~1Mb/s. This is included in the 7Mb/s allocation. That meant we basically had 5Mb/s for everything else and even approaching 3Mb/s for our own data would cause latency issues for all robots on the field.

We only focused on FMS bandwidth last year because we really wanted 640x480@10Hz/30% and wanted a baseline bandwidth to figure out the boundary conditions. I was trying to stitch telemetry data with image data. Wasn't worth it, to be honest - we wound up having to go down to 6Hz before the FTA's stopped complaining about latency. This year we're going to try 320x240@20Hz with 30% compression. Hopefully our whiz kid network programming student is making the net code efficient enough for the telemetry data to keep up.

Have you informed FIRST that the allocated 7 mb/s doesn't work? I've contacted them in the past, only to get the response that "our network experts don't agree". Maybe if more people let them know, they could solve the problem. I've seen it happen at multiple times, so I know it's not just one fms that has the problem, it's all of them. It would be really nice if that allocated bandwidth worked.