The SingleStoreDB Self-Managed 6.7 release includes an important performance improvement in adaptive data compression that optimally responds to network conditions. This feature, developed by a summer intern at SingleStore, utilizes the aggregator's CPUs to compress packets while waiting on the network, making better use of otherwise unused resources. The approach identifies when to invest time compressing buffers versus actually sending packets, and it has been found to significantly improve performance in clusters with weak networks or many leaves. By reducing network congestion, the feature allows data to be loaded at a faster rate than the network speed alone would permit. The improvement is estimated to achieve a 2.7x speedup over uncompressed data loading, bounded by the compression ratio of 3x.