Thank you Conrad,
I've tried all kinds of combinations for colour, FPS, and economy etc but there's very little if any difference.
Sorry, I probably should have explained that I understand how a RU Server would benefit, but I was just testing for raw performance and a direct connection through a port forward would be the same as a local RU server with Internet-ID (please correct me if I am wrong).
I did some performance monitoring on 6.8.0.1 on the host in question and noted the following in Windows Resource Monitor during audio capture:
During normal activity, network interface traffic was averaging about 50Kbps
Begin playing a local MP3 file, the interface traffic jumps 10x to between 400Kbps and 800Kbps (to me seems a lot)
During this time, no audio comes through
Stop the MP3, about 15 seconds later, no audio still, traffic still high and remains high
Eventually some audio will come through in bursts, and complete in around 1 or 2 minutes.
When the last of the 15 seconds of audio is finished playing, the interface traffic drops back down to "normal"
Since my uplink is only around 400Kbps, I'm assuming either the line is getting saturated, or the RU service is topping out at the maximum available speed, which is not enough to sustain the throughput. I don't know what audio quality is trying to be sent, but maybe there needs to be an option to transmit low quality (eg 22Khz) or UDP be used.
To verify, I run the same test with "capture sound" off, and interface traffic does not jump. Turn it on while audio is playing and traffic jumps, and the symptoms above are the same,
but I can't turn off the capture until the transmission of the audio is completedAnyway, I grabbed a screen recording to help demonstrate and I would be very happy to supply any additional logs to you to help improve the next beta!