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> The LAN party, where you and six mates cram yourself into a dining room for a weekend, hook up your PCs with a complex series of switches, routers and CAT9 ca
by Bromskloss 10y ago
> The LAN party, where you and six mates cram yourself into a dining room for a weekend, hook up your PCs with a complex series of switches, routers and CAT9 cables, somehow became quite the thing.
What is a CAT9 cable?
- cptskippy 10y agoJudging by a Google image search, cat9 would have made for an interesting addition to a LAN party.
- mey 10y agoI will admit I have rigged up Tribes 1 over a null modem cable back in the day for local lan play.
- cptskippy 10y agoThe first time I played Quake multiplayer was over modem with my neighbor. His dad had one of those USRobotics V.everything modems and I had a USR Sportster 28k. They negotiated some proprietary protocol like v42 because we had a 140k connect. It was insane at the time.
- partisan 10y agoI vaguely recall that there was a "shotgun" set of modems you could pair up and get 128k over two 56k connections. I had just the one, but it felt so, so good to get sub-200 ping in Action Quake 2 and CS.
- camperman 10y agoI remember a trick of connecting at a standard speed and then running a certain AT command that reduced the latency considerably - from 250ms down to 180 or so. Can't remember what it was but it made a very big difference to Quakeworld. The client prediction made it very playable on a sub-200 ping.
- toast0 10y agoPossibly turning off compression or error correction; both of those would be toggled with an AT command and add latency.
- camperman 10y agoI think you're right - AT%C0 once you're connected didn't drop the line, it just reduced the communications overhead between the modems. Good days :)
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- tracker1 10y agoNo idea, I remember playing around with 10-base-t coax a few times...
- vt240 10y ago10base-2, we had some localtalk phonenet mac lan parties too.
- LukeShu 10y agoTo clarify vt240's reply: If you were playing with coax, that would have been 10base-2. 10base-T is twisted pair Cat3 cable that used the same 8P8C connectors we use today.
- vt240 10y agoSorry. Just to mention it is going to give me nightmares about big AUI media converters sticking out, loose, not fitting right, falling off, ahahhaa. Novell Netware. Tree. Booting from floppy disks. ISA Cards!
- teddyh 10y agohttp://genecatlow.keenspot.com/d/20000721.html http://genecatlow.keenspot.com/d/20000721.html
- tracker1 10y agoYou are correct... :-)
- Tiksi 10y agoIt's when you have to splice a cat4 and a cat5 together with scotch tape because your longest cable wont reach from the hub on the table to the couch where you had to set up because you got there late. I'm still actively using a LAN party spliced cat5e from over a decade ago, though I've properly soldered and heat-shrinked it since.
- agret 10y agoI think he meant DB9