I miss it back in the day when game servers were centrally hosted.
----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com -------------------------------------------------- From: "David E. Smith" <d...@mvn.net> Sent: Monday, October 05, 2009 10:14 AM To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org> Subject: Re: [WISPA] XBOX 360 > Mike wrote: >> I guess I never knew the servers were out in other users homes, kinda >> like P2P or a sort of distributed computing? I guess I thought the >> Xbox live servers were centrally located. > > They are and they aren't. Xbox Live itself is centrally located, but > whenever you join a game with other human players, one of those players > will "host" the game. It's basically the same model as most multi-player > games, save MMO games with hundreds or thousands of players, have used > for ten or more years. > > David Smith > MVN.net > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
