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Okay so I'm bugged, I don't know which library to use for the multiplayer. Is it socket or enet?

I have created a "ping/pong" program that constantly sends "ping" to a server and "pong" to a client both in socket and enet.
Now the problem is that when I start 10 clients the socket one starts getting really slow(only 2 of 10 clients receive "pong" and the other 8 don't receive anything), but with enet every 10 clients receive "pong".

But the thing that bugs me is that enet one, needs to receive every time a packet otherwise the client disconnects(it uses the "while event do" loop) is there any possible way to fix that, I don't want to send every time a packet, I want to send them in delays(1 second...) but if I do it the server doesn't receive anything and stops sending the client packets.

The code I used for the enet is: https://love2d.org/wiki/lua-enet


So to wrap things up, which library is better for multiplayer games socket or enet?
And is it possible to send a delayed packet using enet without stopping the while event do loop? Could you provide code?
...I have been trying to figure this thing out for the past 2 days so I decided to jump on forums(I googled it everywhere, didn't help)...

Enet works on top of sockets. So you just need to program your game properly. And networking just happens to be the hardest part of programming a game, so you should expect tons of problems like this.

You must program it to allow missing a packet and continue running anyway. As for most of your peer not receiving packets, you're probably doing something very silly; under normal circumstances the socket library is more than well suited to handle thousands of active connections.

Just use sock.lua, it's a wrapper on top of enet.. even easier