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OP here: it's almost exact. The old network was TokenRing based, and therefore, the more people connected, the bigger the lag for LAN games was. So they wanted
by jbk 11y ago
OP here: it's almost exact.
The old network was TokenRing based, and therefore, the more people connected, the bigger the lag for LAN games was. So they wanted an Ethernet one :)
- gregschlom 11y agoThanks for the correction! I was remembering one of the members of VIA (the student association who manages the IT at Ecole Centrale) giving me a tour of their infrastructure and boasting about fiber optic networks but I guess that was was after VideoLAN and the switch from Token Ring to Ethernet. Maybe something related to the Renater backbone (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renater https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renater) Anyway! Goods times :)