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[โ€“] tryagain@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

A group of us discovered the only range of non-firewalled IPs in our university, which belonged to a particular library building. And because this was Windows 95 and you could just change your IP to whatever you wanted, we could connect to Quakeworld with a ridiculously low ping.

Windows can do that now, too. As long as the network is flat, then you can do this today. Nice find!

[โ€“] mvee@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Still can change your ip most of the time! Jfc most devices just take whatever ip a responding DHCP server gives them, not to mention dns!