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Ben Carterette wrote:

> Usually after a little while (less than 5 minutes), I get kicked out
> with a consistency failure, while my friend keeps playing with no knowledge
> that I left.  This is in Hexen, Doom, and Doom 2.  Duke3d is somewhat... ...I have a USR Sportster 14.4k internal fax/modem.  His is a generic 14.4k.
> I have a Pentium-75 with 8 megs of RAM.  He has a 486DX2-66 with 8 megs
> of RAM.  As far as I can tell, the problem is that the two modems don't
> want to talk to each other for any length of time.
> 
> Any help you can offer would be appreciated.
> --
> Ben Carterette
> cc...@po.cwru.edu

This is just a guess, but that 486DX-66 that your friend has may not have a 
16550 UART chip... (is that the right number?)  Anyway, the upgraded UART 
chip thingy helps when you are connecting at high speeds, even 14.4 over a 
modem.  I have a 486DX-66 laptop and I usually have a terrible time getting 
games to connect and I have all sorts of sync problems with it.  I think it 
is because of that damn little chip.  All newer computers should come with 
the upgrade, but some of the old systems might not have it...

I could be way off on this one, but it is a nice guess...heh....

Anyone else have an answer?

-Tom