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I found great joy in reading about Quake3's networking model [1]. It is build on top of the assumption that the network is unreliable: most of the packets will

by brute 12y ago

I found great joy in reading about Quake3's networking model [1]. It is build on top of the assumption that the network is unreliable: most of the packets will be dropped and those that make it are not in sequence. [1] http://trac.bookofhook.com/bookofhook/trac.cgi/wiki/Quake3Networking http://trac.bookofhook.com/bookofhook/trac.cgi/wiki/Quake3Ne...

nly 12y ago
It's interesting how similar that approach is to the one taken by Mosh: https://mosh.mit.edu/#techinfo https://mosh.mit.edu/#techinfo