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I remember we played warcraft 2 over ~15m of cat3 cable stretched outside between two flats on 6th floor. Those were the times, lol.
by lstodd 1mo ago
I remember we played warcraft 2 over ~15m of cat3 cable stretched outside between two flats on 6th floor. Those were the times, lol.
- bronlund 1mo agoI remember playing over a 9-pin RS232 null cable - but I guess that is telling about my age :D Not Warcraft though - some ancient DOS game.
- croon 1mo agoI believe the first Command & Conquer was the one I played that way. But I'm young, so it can't possibly be the same, can it?
- doublerabbit 1mo agoThe original CnC allowed you to play 1v1 via telephone number. Being 15, that was absolute wizardry. It would still works today if both parties have a landline.
- me-vs-cat 1mo agoLandline? I don't understand. If both parties have a LAN line, shouldn't they use that to communicate?
- Hikikomori 1mo agoPlayed Doom over null cable at home.
- inigyou 1mo agoBefore the world standardized on Ethernet/IP, Microsoft had an abstraction layer called DirectPlay. ("Direct" was that era's "Copilot" word for Microsoft)
- pezezin 1mo agoFYI, EtherNet/IP is an industrial control protocol, not TCP/IP over Ethernet. Yes, that is the real name of the protocol, a more confusing name could not have been chosen... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EtherNet/IP https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EtherNet/IP
- inigyou 1mo agoFYI, IP is a phonetic acronym for "I pee", meaning "I urinate" Two letters can have more than one meaning!
- pezezin 1mo agoYeah, and it can also mean Intellectual Property. But "Ethernet/IP" is not just "two letters", is a trademarked brand.
- idiotsecant 1mo agoI use E/IP all the time and if i had a nickel for every time i had to explain this to people I wouldnt have to use E/IP anymore.
- ButlerianJihad 1mo agoFor anyone today who's got copper wire stretched between any buildings, you are in danger and your configuration is quite unwise. For every standalone building that has a ground, that building also has an electrical potential. This potential is not necessarily the same between two neighboring buildings. When you stretch a copper line between them, you are tempting fate, electrically, not to mention the dangers of lightning strikes and the elements attacking that connection. It is generally recognized that fiber optics are not only very efficient and durable, but also impervious to electrical troubles of the type that may plague inter-building connections. Simply grab switches or routers that support at least one fiber-optic connection, and link up!
- lstodd 1mo agoWho cared, we were 15 at the time. Besides you worry too much. Entire cities were wired with cat5 hanged off steel cable between 9 to 15 story buildings in early 2000s, before fiber. Nothing burned down.
- inigyou 1mo agoIf your cable is shielded it's liable to spark and trip breakers. Happened to me when one building was horribly miswired (someone swapped live and ground somewhere) and fried part of my computer before the breaker tripped. In the worst case there isn't actually any breaker in the path (they are only on live wires and the worry here is ground loops) so your cable just melts. That didn't happen to me. Unshielded cable is theoretically isolated at both ends but who actually knows with some chinesium equipment?
- EvanAnderson 1mo agoI did work for a small community college back in the 90s that had expanded their building multiple times since the 70s. The electrical potential between different parts of the building was significant enough to make wired Ethernet unreliable. (I never did understand why this was-- multiple electric service entrances with separate grounds, I assume.) Because of this they were an early adopter of fiber-based networking. I remember being wowed by ATM over fiber running between closets at a blazing 155Mbps (with tons of 10BASE-T clients connected to FORE chassis switches).
- sgt 1mo agoWhen I did LAN parties we had 10base2 over thin coax. Terminators at each end. Of course it was unstable because people kept disconnecting and everyone lost connection.