Once apon a time Paul Wankadia said, 'What's "HST" mean?' to
Steven Anderson...

 PW> Well, not really.  HST just gives one way full speed and the other way
 PW> slower rate -- it's not REALLY half-duplex, is it?
 SA>  Well 14400/450 is close enough to half duplex for me :)
 SA>   (Cant play DOOM, Quake etc :)

 PW> Got any idea of what sort of link is required for a good game of
 PW> Doom...??? You wouldn't be continually sending data ALL the time, would
 PW> you?

Doom, Duke3d etc do send data in a continuous stream, but only in small
bursts. You only need about 2400bps to keep up with the data rate, but at
that speed the response time is too slow, so a realistic minimum is 9600.

14.4K is more or less perfect - same as a direct serial link. Same applies
to Duke3D as well. Quake is an etirely different matter tho, and because
of its server-client system even 28.8K is considered unsatisfactory by
players used to playing on a network....in short Quake is a dead loss over
a modem :(

Regards,
Simon

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