• Stupidmanager@lemmy.world
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      13 days ago

      Token Ring is a network protocol where a token—a small data packet—circulates around a ring topology, allowing only the device holding the token to transmit data, thus avoiding collisions. We played Doom and Quake.

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        13 days ago

        I know what it is, and I played both those on lan, but my older bro set it up so I guess I just don’t remember. Fucking crazy that shit could work fast enough.

        I don’t remember, what was the lag like for token ring? Lan just feels like it should be 100 ping or less

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          11 days ago

          Not really. It was a local network, and sure the latency increased linearly with the number of nodes, but for a small LAN party it would be quite serviceable.