Day 16- messages in networks

The word I recieved was "quassias" which are small shrubs.
I was trying to send the word "bauhinia" which is a subtropical shrub in the pea family.

It takes a LONG time to send the message using this method since there were many collisions and it takes a long time to actually code and decode the message and read off all the bits of information. I found it a lot easier to recieve messages using this method. Once I had sent mine, I just had to sit there and wait for somebody to say my name then write what they said. When sending, I was strategically trying to figure out when to send out and listening for collisions and then trying to quickly figure out which was my next byte to send and to read it loudly and clearly but also quickly.

I think the main "bottleneck" was that nobody really waited a random amount of time. everybody would try to speak right after somebody finished or right after there was a collision. I think if everybody had to pick a random number of seconds to wait after they decided to send a message, then it would have gone more quickly. For example if I had to say okay, after this person, I want to send a message but I must wait 3 seconds. Then, of the three or four people who had chosen to send a message at that time, it is highly unlikely that they would all have to go at the same time. Also, what would make it faster would be if people actually stopped when somebody was talking so there wouldn't be such a long pause. Everybody tried to sort of claim the airwaves by shouting their name as quickly as possible but then they'd have to wait and make sure nobody else had done the same. If people just decided to say their name and then their number, there wouldn't be that waiting time. Also, if everybody was actually always ready to send/ recieve. It seemed a lot of times people had to wait a long time to say a number or they took too long to write it down and therefore missed the last few bits of information.