[gameprogrammer] Re: Testing Remote Connectivity

This may not be appropriate, but vmware server is free, and stupidly easy to administer. I mean, maybe the game uses opengl or is graphically intensive, so vmware would not really work.
I think that testing across a LAN would be good enough, especially for a personnel project. I imagine that just testing across a LAN would mask bandwidth related performance issues, and any issues your game may have with firewalls and port forwarding. 

Jake

Lilith Calbridge wrote:

I'm not sure what the protocols are but would it work to test sending to
your localhost at 127.0.0.1 or simply localhost?

Lilith


On 2/28/2007 at 1:52 PM, Stephen Smith

<gp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi all,

I've written a few on-line games, but the main problem I come across



when testing, is testing in a real-world environment, i.e. connecting
across the internet. I can't afford more than one computer, but as everyone will obviously know, there's a world of difference between connecting to your own PC and connecting to another PC across the internet. Is there a way to test this without having to buy another 


computer and internet connection?

Cheers,

Stephen



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