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[Feature Request]: Telemetry Hop Setting #5304

Closed madeofstown closed 2 weeks ago

madeofstown commented 2 weeks ago

Platform

Cross-Platform

Description

Telemetry tends to be a decent share of network messages (about 20-25% in the data I've seen).

I think it would be a nice scaling feature for telemetry broadcasts to be able to be configured to have the hop count lower in order to potentially save some network bandwidth.

GUVWAF commented 2 weeks ago

Increasing the broadcast interval can be done today and likely has much more effect.

madeofstown commented 2 weeks ago

Yes raising the broadcast interval can definitely help with decreased messages. Lowering hop counts seems more interesting because of the exponential way messages spread in the network (1-2 hops may not be an issue but 3 or more can start to spread and become more bandwidth intensive). This also means that telemetry data can stay up to date and relevant for people nearby without clogging the wider mesh.