config: 10x default send/recv rate (#1978)

* config: 10x default send/recv rate

This increases the default send/recv rate from 512 kB/s to 5.12 mB/s

Closes #1752

* Fix typo

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@
 # Changelog
 
+## PENDING
+
+IMPROVEMENTS:
+- [config] Increase default send/recv rates to 5 mB/s
+
 ## 0.22.4
 
 *July 14th, 2018*

config/config.go

@@ -349,9 +349,9 @@ func DefaultP2PConfig() *P2PConfig {
 		AddrBookStrict:          true,
 		MaxNumPeers:             50,
 		FlushThrottleTimeout:    100,
-		MaxPacketMsgPayloadSize: 1024,   // 1 kB
-		SendRate:                512000, // 500 kB/s
-		RecvRate:                512000, // 500 kB/s
+		MaxPacketMsgPayloadSize: 1024,    // 1 kB
+		SendRate:                5120000, // 5 mB/s
+		RecvRate:                5120000, // 5 mB/s
 		PexReactor:              true,
 		SeedMode:                false,
 		AllowDuplicateIP:        true, // so non-breaking yet

docs/tendermint-core/configuration.md

@@ -121,10 +121,10 @@ max_num_peers = 50
 max_packet_msg_payload_size = 1024
 
 # Rate at which packets can be sent, in bytes/second
-send_rate = 512000
+send_rate = 5120000
 
 # Rate at which packets can be received, in bytes/second
-recv_rate = 512000
+recv_rate = 5120000
 
 # Set true to enable the peer-exchange reactor
 pex = true