I loved LAN parties, but everyone went because playing games with your friends over 56k (more like 48.8k) was terrible, and 10/100 Ethernet was amazing by comparison. I might get about 20 ms higher nowadays being physically connected with Ethernet, but most times it's not worth toting my whole rig around. That said, I do have a big LAN party with coworkers once a month using work laptops; they're terrible machines, so we end up playing Counterstrike 1.0 and BF1942. Still amazing fun.
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