Once apon a time Hamish Moffatt said, 'USR upgrade' to Steven Anderson...



 HM> Saturday December 14 1996 13:35, Steven Anderson wrote to Hamish

 HM> Moffatt:

 HM>> or something in the other. And still none of it applies to our phone

 HM>> syste (or most of Europe's).

 >  Quake Receives more data than it Transmits so even a 56K/28k8 connect



 HM> What a strange statement! In a two player game, both players must

 HM> transmit and receive the same amount!



Wrong. Quake is not a peer-to-peer system like Doom2, Duke3d etc, it is

a server-client system, which is why it sucks so much over a modem. In

the client->server direction only player movements and shooting etc are

transmitted, but in the opposite direction you have *both* players movements,

AND all the environmental things, like they sky moving, water movement,

any monsters, if enabled, and moving platforms etc...FAR more bandwidth...



Regards,

Simon



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