Incompatability of MAME and internet??

[scuzzie]

Under XP, whenever I'm on the internet, (dialup), and I decide to play a game in MAME, my internet connection drops out.     This never used to happen when I used Win 98.  Is there a setting I can adjust to prevent this or something?

[mr. tweedle]

I have noticed the exact same thing. I have Winxp and ICS enabled. So when playing mame on the server pc, all internet connections are dropped on the other pc's, when I exit mame everything comes back online.

Weird stuff indeed.

[ahmer]

This thread is unique.

I thought that this is only my problem.

[Howard_Casto]

You guys need to report this over at mametesters, it sounds like a bug. 

The reason it's probably never came up before:

What are the odds of a person running mame on a machine that has dialup, while the dialup is connected?  (Most people on dialup don't keep their connection on all the time because it holds up the phone line, not to mention, depending upon the service it could cost them money.)

[ahmer]

I realize this fact whenever i download a new ROM while connected with internet then i must test to play it in mame.
usually internet connection disconected after return from mame.

[lokki]

Wonder if this is due to using winmodem modems.
Used to have similar problem a while a go (it has been a while since I used modem).

To make cheaper modems winmodem use your CPU to do some of the processing (instead of the modem doing all the processing itself), one of the side effects of this is if you CPU gets maxed out (which mame tends to do) your connection will tend to drop.




Some info at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winmodem

[mr. tweedle]

Well I have a cable modem connected via ethernet, so that won't apply to me, to solve the problem i had to purchase a router, that connects to the modem.

oh and this only happened in mame, not other emu's ive used.

[Howard_Casto]

Perhaps someone put in prelimenary networking support for those "lan" games (like modern racing games that link together) and forgot to turn it off.

[ddockery]

I'm a hopeless internet junkie, but back when I was on dial-up I had a seperate line so I could stay connected. Surely I'm not the only one? 

[zaphod]

I had a seperate line, too.  Locally I pay per call, so if it stayed up for 200 hours, it was still the same nickel a one-minute call was.  Back when SBC showed local minutes of useage it was funny to see 10 calls, 30,000 minutes of  useage- totalling forty-some cents.  Got a little more expensive when my provider began to kick me off after twelve hours online.