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November 23, 2001 Link to this post
Online MP Halo is here
The work on getting Halo to play online has been fast and furious over the past few days. We've watched it carefully, but have held off reporting much until solid progress was made... that time is now. A new program called Xbox Gateway has been written to route Xbox packets over the internet... people have successfully played 1-on-1 multiplayer games from two different places! The program is free, and will soon be open-source. It currently has limitations (more than two players introduces unacceptable lag (although one of our forum visitors reports an acceptable 4-player game), and each player must have a linux box available for use on the local network for routing packets)... but past that, the work's been done for you. Visit XBoxGW.com and download the software, and instructions on how to use it... and you should be on your way! (Thanks to Freewill for keeping a beady eye on the entire process for us.) (Louis Wu 14:44:47 UTC)
