An exploratory survey was undertaken about the appeal of playing video games at a Local Area Network (LAN) event where personal computers are linked in order to play both face-to-face and online. First, we wanted to know who the visitors of a LAN event were, because there is hardly any research available about this class of gamers. Second, we wanted to know why they participated in a LAN event....

DMT modulation has become a standard communications method for DSL and indoor LAN technology. By utilising the FFT it is able to overcome the problems associated with transmission over a nonflat communications channel. In DSL and indoor LAN technologies, the dominant source of performance impairment is crosstalk. Results are presented here in the context of DMT on an economical cabling scheme w...

Inl The interconnection of dissimilar LANs and devices over a high-speed backbone network can creat congestion at a destination LAN (output) gateway when more than one device or LAN attempt to simultaneously communicate with the same device or LAN. We address the issue of congestion avoidance in LANs interconnected by a high speed backbone. A congestion-avoidance scheme that requires input gate...