Well this all started when -z-'s cousin, Zachariah, contacted me a few months ago. He is a Brigadier General at the Toronto Naval Academy (he is the 4th guy from the right in the back). Turns out the Canadian Navy has been developing a new faster Internet Protocol to facilitate instant communication across great distances. Zach was in charge of technology development, and since the successful internal deployment and declassification of the project late last year, he has been looking for ways to test it out for civilian use.

Since he is intimately familiar with internet gaming from talking with -z-, he wanted a couple of us to come to Toronto for a preview. Since I visit Toronto regularly, I hooked up with Jangles on my last visit in April. We had to go through intense security screening and our laptop hard drives had to be completely wiped clean! These guys were serious!! The good thing was that we got advanced copies of Tiger for free. :)

We met with their Combat Simulations Division in a building that from all appearances looks more like a church. The guys there basically play what looks like video games all day long, but they are in full uniform!

Anyway, the technology is pretty simple but quite brilliant. All they do is give you a small Blue-Link® Module that plugs into your ethernet port. Then you plug a CAT-5 cable into that.

Normally when you play a game like TT, your computer sends out individual data packets that go out from your computer and follow a long and sometimes convoluted path to the server. If you encounter a bad router, it takes time for the data to take an alternate route. With the Multiplex Packet Burst, your computer (actually the Blue-Link Module) sends out over 1000 identical packets simultaneously , and sends them on divergent routes. It turns our that this is enough to always find a direct route and eliminate packet latency entirely. Bottom line: pings to anywhere in the world in <50 ms!! No changes have to be made on the server. The only requirement is to get this adapter and to be using a Mac with OS X Tiger.

Here is some more technical information:

http://www.navy.ca/Toronto/CSU/BlueLink/techinfo.html

And some of the Russian technology behind the scenes:
http://www.bluelink.net

Jangles and I played in front of a whole group of these guys, and I think we impressed them! They were screaming and hollering as we played some SERIOUS scrum!! Truly a sight to behold. They gave us free Blue-Link Modules, even though they won't be officially released to the public until November of this year. So watch out you all!!

Rx & J

Last edited: Sunday, May 22, 2005 at 9:18:05 AM

^ Gotta agree with that.

^^ Yes I do.

If it were up to me, I wouldn't print the logo so close to the edge of the label for the link. I would keep a safety border inside the trim of about 1/8".

XD

OKAY OKAY!!! XD

So not EVERYTHING I wrote is actually true... :)

Actually, my only regret in all of this is that I couldn't figure out how to weave Leeeroy Jenkins into the story!

Now that I have completely destroyed any remaining credibility I had, I can pretty much say anything I want, and you will have no idea what you can actually believe. :P

The full story of what really happened coming soon... ;)

Actually, it's very clear what we should believe.

So I can only beleave half of this? Or less?

I will beleave that much for now, but if this really is fake, I won't be fooled.

I would be pretty confident that ^ can believe < 10% of this. But hey, Reagent X gets mega points for giving it a good try. Anyone willing to invest that much time and effort in a hoax has to be admired.

Kudos, Reagent X!

^ I agree. He kept up the charade for a good while. There was actually a brief moment where I began to doubt my conviction that this was all a hoax… but only very brief. XD
So Reag, was this all your idea, or did someone convince you to do it? We want the whole truth now.

You can't handle the truth!!

^ LOL XD

Wait, so -z- has turned to the dark side? He's been playing Halo?

I dont belive any of this.