Jeff Murphy wrote :
>
> Michel Lavondes insists:
> >Nice to know that IPX/SPX networks are not the only ones Doom can bring to
> >their knees :-)
>
> actually, it should be less of a pig on tcp since they wont be
> broadcasting like they did under ipx.
If you think about *machines* on the network being brought to their knees,
you're probably right. But what about the wire itself ? Not using broadcast
means thrice as many packets (assuming 4-players doom), plus tcp acks if
they're not piggybacked.
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