DS reliability

[Joe Ross]

Originally Posted by kamocat

Note that I'm not running this on the classmate PC right now (I've returned it to the team), but I think the results are comparable.

There are a lot of things that can change when switching computers. Ethernet card, firewall, processor speed, background tasks, and operating system could all have an effect on the timing of the DS packets. For the test to be valid, you should run both versions of DS software on the same computer and compare the results. I assume it wouldn't be too hard for you to run the old DS software on your current computer.

[kamocat]

Originally Posted by Joe Ross

There are a lot of things that can change when switching computers. Ethernet card, firewall, processor speed, background tasks, and operating system could all have an effect on the timing of the DS packets. For the test to be valid, you should run both versions of DS software on the same computer and compare the results. I assume it wouldn't be too hard for you to run the old DS software on your current computer.

That's a good idea.
I'll try to get to that on Sunday.

[kamocat]

Joe, you're very right. I just did a test of the old driver station:

(I apologize, I forgot to show the histogram last time)

Do you have any suggestions for how I can have two versions of the DS installed on the same computer? This uninstalling and reinstalling is cumbersome for what should be a quick test.

EDIT:
Something seems funny about this data. The test took 2 minutes, not 2 hours.

EDIT2:
The data was correct, but my time elapsed calculation was not.
Here's a screenshot of another test of the same thing:

[jhersh]

Originally Posted by kamocat

Do you have any suggestions for how I can have two versions of the DS installed on the same computer? This uninstalling and reinstalling is cumbersome for what should be a quick test.

Just install the old version, save off the driver station .exe as a different name, then install the new version. You can then just run either one (one at a time).

-Joe