Need help speeding up my logistics pipes

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bigmidgeman

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I have a bunch of chests connected to each other and a request pipe to be able to search for things and send them to me. The chests closest to the request pipe get there very fast while the ones at the end of the chain take forever. I only know how to use provider, supplier and request pipes atm. See pics below for setup.

Also, I tried putting and iron pipe to keep things from going to every pipe on the way to the request pipe but they still get sucked through it.

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The request pipe is under the crystal chest in the bottom right corner of the image.

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All chests connected in series.

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Each chest has a provider pipe and an iron pipe before connecting to the main gold pipe. I can replace the iron pipes to speed things up but I was hoping not to have the item stop at each chest along the way, instead an item will still get pulled through the iron pipe.

When I request an item that is in the last chest it takes about 52 seconds to get to the crystal chest because it has to visit each provider pipe along the way. Any help on speeding things up would be greatly appreciated.
 

rhn

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You have to use the basic Logistic Pipe at every junction, or else the Logistics network cannot do its item routing. Now you are brute forcing items through as normal BC pipes will randomly pick an output direction. The whole point of Logistic Pipes is that it is smart about which direction it chooses. But only if you actually uses its pipes.
It is fine to use use gold pipes between the junctions, but you have to use a Logistic Pipe at every junction so the network can register routes and send items down the right paths.
 

bigmidgeman

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Tyvm, that makes perfect sense. I just started using the logistics pipes yesterday and I love them. I put the pipes in the junctions and now it's running a lot faster.