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Article #126Re: Doom on the Internet
From: Nick.B... Nick Bensema
Date: Wed, 05 Jan 1994 05:16
Date: Wed, 05 Jan 1994 05:16
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In article <1994Jan5.0...@news.unomaha.edu>,
Marcus Graham <mgr...@unomaha.edu> wrote:
>A long time ago before Doom was realeased, a bunch of guys were talking
>about playing doom over networks...
>
>We started talking about the possibility of playing it over the Internet,
>does anyone know if this option has been ruled out, cause if we could, I
>could host a really cool Doom site where you could play four player games...
>I belive it could be really successful!
>
>Any ideas?
>Marcus
I doubt it would work unless in geographically close places, and to homes
that have a 56k leased line or something. Lag would have a bad effect on
the game. And, if one site were to act as host... even just _ten_ sites,
the traffic would probably be overwhelming.
>From what I hear, the thing cant even run on a LAN.
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