Topic: NOA Confirms LAN Play for Mario Kart

[JB]

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Originally posted by: yrrab436
I hope Nintendo doesn't pull "an AOL."  AOL tends to use nonstandard garbage.  For example, you have to buy an "AOL compatible" router to share an AOL Broadband connection, and such a connection isn't “always on” or compatible with any console gaming network.

Nintendo has already "embraced" standard technology since the broadband adapter(which you can already buy) is nothing more than an ethernet adapter.

What I was talking about in my post was the software the GC would use to communicate with another GC.

[yrrab436]

I don't understand, did you think I was talking about your post?  Sorry if it seemed like it.  I meant that AOL Broadband uses it's own weird stuff, even though it uses normal Cable modems and normal cable equipment.  So, routers have to be specifically compatible with this "weird stuff" in order to share an AOL Broadband connection.  I was concerned that Nintendo would use its own "weird stuff" too, since I'm not exactly an expert on Ethernet.  I figured that if AOL does weird non-standard stuff with Ethernet  maybe Nintendo would too.  I didn't know the broadband adapter was already confirmed to be function in a network enviornment as standard Ethernet.  It's nice to know.  Maybe I'm just confused.  I'm talking about Internet and Intranet connections as if they're totally different.  Now that I think about it, they're not are they?

[JB]

I don't know anything about AOL broadband, but my broadband service has something similar.  The required equipment uses standard ethernet, but the method used to connect to the internet is an unusual one for an  ADSL service and is not used by many ISP's over the world. There are a few broadband routers that are not compatible with this service because they lack the correct software to connect with it. I'm assuming that AOL has a similar setup.

If the broadband adapter didn't use standard ethernet nobody would be able to use it to play PSO.