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On 7 Apr 1996 03:13:22 GMT, cc...@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ben
Carterette) wrote:

>
>A friend and I have tried repeatedly to play modem games of Doom, Doom 2,
>Duke3d, and Hexen, but we've never been able to get a good game started.
>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
>different.. after a few minutes, weird things start to happen on my side;
>I can't pick items up and things I 'T'ransmit just stay on the screen. 
>Then my view quickly flips over to my friend's, flips back, and I get a
>Sync failure message and he's gone.
>
>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

Hmm??  My friend has a pentuim 120 and I have a amd dx4/100 with 16mb
of ram. Im only running a 8250 uart on a generic Rockwell  external
modem.  

He has an internal  US robo 28.8 modem.  

I have played numerous 3d games over the modem with him and have never
had any problems.   

I know that usr 14.4's don't work well with rockwells. Especially if
you have compression and error control enabled. 

You might want to try upgrading your modem to a USR  
( though that could be one problem out of several possibilites)