[TUHS] RetroNet…

jsteve at superglobalmegacorp.com jsteve at superglobalmegacorp.com
Mon Sep 3 11:11:08 AEST 2018


That is the first version.  It sent out full 1500 byte frames. Later versions had corrected that. They were padded to all zeros, so they compress quite nicely.


Sent from my Windows 10 phone

From: Derek Fawcus
Sent: Monday, 3 September 2018 06:45
To: tuhs at minnie.tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] RetroNet…

On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 12:11:17PM -0600, Grant Taylor via TUHS wrote:
> But if you want to use 
> RetroNet to play Doom across IPX with buddies across town, then you 
> should be able to do so.

Err - maybe not.

I recall doing that once or twice on our office LAN at the time,
it was very chatty - as I recall it sucked most of the available b/w.

(Or maybe that was just 'cause it was using broadcast packets)

DF

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