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any one know the pricing for ten network and is there going to be a seperate pricing for just nascar2 like say you didnt want to play any of the other games but n2

>any one know the pricing for ten network >and is there going to be a seperate pricing for just nascar2 like say you >didnt want to play any of the other games but n2 Datalock, I can't give you the exact prices, but it is expensive. They have two plans. One is hourly. It costs around $10.95 for 5 hours, then each additional hour is $1.95. They also have a monthly plan which is unlimited acces for around $25/month. In addition to this, if you use their local internet dialup, you have to pay an additional $1.95 per hour regardless of the plan in use. I think this is waved for the first 5 hours on the $10.95 plan. I am glad you brought this up, because I would like to kick around an idea. It is in regards to software manufactures writing software that will allow gamers to hook up via the internet. Ten allows you to use your exisiting internet service if you have one. This leads me to believe that there is nothing special about the connection to the service. It has to go over the internet just like everything else. If this is true, then they should be able to write something that will allow anyone to connect to anyone else via the internet. The main issue is the speed of the connection. When you log onto Ten, it checks the speed of your connection. It will tell you how good it is, and will not let you play if it is below a certain speed. I played Duke Nukem and was able to get good connections using my own internet account. The play was pretty smooth, but had some jerkiness to it at times. If there is anyone out there that has more knowledge in regards to this issue, I would be glad to hear from them. I think it would be cool to allow people to connect directly to each other over the internet. I just don't know if there is some trick that Ten uses to speed up there connections over the net. Thanks, Paul

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> >any one know the pricing for ten network > >and is there going to be a seperate pricing for just nascar2 like say <SNIP> > Datalock, > I can't give you the exact prices, but it is expensive. They have two > plans. One is hourly. It costs around $10.95 for 5 hours, then each > additional hour is $1.95. They also have a monthly plan which is > unlimited acces for around $25/month. > In addition to this, if you use their local internet dialup, you have > to pay an additional $1.95 per hour regardless of the plan in use. I > think this is waved for the first 5 hours on the $10.95 plan.

<snip> > Thanks, > Paul John & Paul, I received an email from TEN that said pricing for NRO would be the same as everything else on TEN. As stated above TEN has a few different plans. You can find these at http://www.ten.net/ I've also seen Ed Martin's post that says that the NRO price structure may not be exactly the same and also there will be a registration if you want to run in NRO sanctioned races not just N2 pick-up or series races on TEN. This leads me to believe that there will be a registration fee. I have no idea what it will be or even if this will change. Merely speculation on my part assuming that I've read things correctly. Part of the post above also states that it costs $1.95 per hour extra to use TEN's local acces numbers. This is not accurate. It is $0.95 per hour. These local access numbers are provided by Concentric Networks which is a national ISP. If you use Concentric as your ISP they have a $19.95 unlimited access account. That takes care of the $0.95 per hour. I'm going to speculate that NRO will not come out until Concentric has completed thier Super POP network nationwide. Or at least in most of the major metropolitan areas.(Estimated late spring, early summer 1997) You can read about this at http://www.concentric.net/ This network will provide an ATM backbone with new technology network equipment, & minimal hops, therby low latency, between your dialin to concentric and thier link to a regional TEN server. According to the article, this network is currently running in California. Again, most of what I've said above is pure specualtion after doing my own research. I've heard the numerous pleas to Papy to provide some more info and I havn't seen it yet. I suspect its because they are not exactly sure themselves. They have quite a bit riding on this, its fairly cutting edge technology (at least nobody else is doing it) so Papy is probably waiting to post us on the details until things are farily concrete. They may have more s/w engineering to do as well. More specualtion on my part is that Papy needs to insure N2 will run on the minimum specs as stated by TEN under Win95. I do not know of any good TCP/IP stack for DOS. As DOS is only 16 bit and you really should use a 32bit stack. My feeling is that when its available, we'll be having a blast!!! Sorry for the long post. Hope this helps some though. Regards, Bob Bob_Stanley LightSpeed MotorSports http://www.cfw.com/~aldhizer/lightspeed.html