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hylaride 10 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: How Quake.exe got its TCP/IP stack

> Dial-up, has better latency, since their is no packet-switching. So it is slow, but not laggy.

It was laggy as there was buffering and some compression (at least for later revisions of dial-up) that most definitely added latency.

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