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- On Tue, 19 Dec 1995, Magnus Kollberg wrote:
-
- > I don't think using the LAN port is such a good idea. Afterall, how do you
- > build a network with the LAN port without any hardware? MIDI is so much easier
- > as it have one port in and one out. The midi port is quite fast. I think Doug
- > is thinking of using both the midiports and the serial port. 12 in each "end"
- > of the serial port. If it can be done is anothe rquestion. ;-)
- >
- > Something like this.
- >
- > o-o-o-o o-o...
- > / \ /
- > o o----o
- > | | |
- > o o o
- > \ / \
- > o-o-o-o o-o...
-
- That will be dead slow. Imagine having to route each packet through at
- least 20 gateways before it reaches the correct destination. The game
- will be extremely slow beacuse of the roundtrip time.
-
- For a multiplayer game that uses high network traffic (like this one)
- needs a broacasting network, like Ethernet.
-
- --
- Elias Martenson
- elias@omicron.se
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