Photolysis
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Shake Appeal said:I would lop off a pinkie finger in exchange for Bungie revealing what numerical values the "connection bars" correspond to
Ah, that I can answer. Unfortunately I can't update my networking thread on Bungie.net so I'll have to add this in when I make v3, whenever I get around to that.
The bars on the scoreboard are based on 3 variables regarding your connection to the host: round trip time (RTT), packet loss, and bandwidth. These are then broken up in to 6 categories, and the lowest score is the one shown on the scoreboard.
For example, for a good host in the US, I'll probably get 6 bars for bandwidth, 6 bars for packet loss, and 5 for the RTT giving me 5 bars on the scoreboard.
The one shown for the host is simply the average of the scores for all client players.