News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on I wish my web server were in the corner of my room. Parent comment

Re:I wish my web server were in the corner of my room by barkingcat on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @03:19AM (#33173877)
In those days, the profs were the ones playing the video games.

They were "testing the newly pulled fibre optics" by trying to saturate it with Wow, Diablo, Counterstrike, Doom, Quake, etc.

They would book the computer labs of 60+ computers and tell everyone to boot up a copy of (ahem pirated) Half Life and get everyone one on games and then run a traceroute/ping/packet trace, etc to measure what was happening.

Those were the days...

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:I wish my web server were in the corner of my room by sandos on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @03:54AM (#33174103)
Games generally use very little bandwidth so that was not a clever test imo... :)
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:I wish my web server were in the corner of my room by corobo on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @04:25AM (#33174318)
Games tend to need low latency though, so it's not a dumb test.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:I wish my web server were in the corner of my room by int_19h on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @09:56PM (#33186252)
DR-DOS / Novell DOS actually shipped with a basic multiplayer space sim (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetWars) in the box, with the official explanation for its existence being "to test network topology and configuration".
[ Parent | on HN ]