Game-ruining LAN slowdown.

from Demigod Forums

I have 3 high end computers, which can all play the game lag free on skirmish.  But, when we play a LAN game between the three there is ENORMOUS slowdown to the point where one player was frozen for five minutes.  When we play between two of the PCs there is also an issue where the game will start at normal (lag free) speed but then after a few minutes it will lag terribly and then disconnect. Please help Stardock!

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Reply #1 from Demigod Forums Top

I'd take a close look at your LAN.  In my experience what happens is one of the machines is losing packets on the LAN that is normally not noticed. The solution is usually to pull up the network card config and force it to whatever your LAN is (100mb, 1 gigabit, etc.).  The auto detect on some cards isn't as good as one would expect.