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Subject: Re: [amos-list] JamesBond net play results....
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From: one fang <dvs1@bigpond.net.au>
Andrew Crowe wrote:
> What it didn't do was play nearly fast enough. It seemed that most the data packets just went straight out the window, resulting it about a 1/2 fps frame rate on the client machine :(
Where you using TCP or UDP?, TCP gives you reliability of delivery, UDP
doesn't.
> PS. The macine that was acting as a server in my tests had a super fast cable modem, I only ran one client and the ping to them was 200ms, Which is (should) be good speed.
As a cable modem user myself, that ping sucks. But I guess you are
talking about the ping from dial-up to cable, where the limiting factor
is the dial up end.
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