Hey couple of questions for you pros, First, I understand the best way to check if you get an old, (discardable,) out of order packet is to add a number to each packet, incrementing as you go. What happens when the number gets large enough to serously increase the packets size?? Should I send a RestartCounter guarenteed packet every hundred or so packets telling the server to reset the packet number?? any other ideas? Also, for dead reconing, I should try to determine the amount of time the packet took to arive and incorparate that into the simulation. How can I do this?? I way I understand this is that the server and client need to sincronize a timing system and datestamp each packet?? How is this possible???? Thanks for any help, Kevin

Currently I''m letting DP do this for me, but I would simply use one byte... so the maximum number would be 255, and it would simply restart at 0 again...

There is a site somewhere how to implement time synchronisation, but I cannot recal the URL for it. a search on this board for "time synchronisation" will probably give you the url in an previous post.