John,
Save the heartache and get BlitzPlay Pro 2 which uses UDP.
It has some really excellent features, and allow you to just get the game sorted, rather than worry about all the other networking aspects.
I had a simple cube in a maze game working within a day over a network on a client/host basis, based on Surreal's already given host and client programmes.
The other neat trick is the fact you can run stuff on one machine as long as it has a network connection. Therefore I can run a Host and a couple of Clients on one PC to check it all works okay, before I get a second PC set up.
Check out the info available from Surreal for BP, if you don't want to spend too much in case it's not what you want, then the lite version is very reasonably priced too.
IPete2.
Save the heartache and get BlitzPlay Pro 2 which uses UDP.
It has some really excellent features, and allow you to just get the game sorted, rather than worry about all the other networking aspects.
I had a simple cube in a maze game working within a day over a network on a client/host basis, based on Surreal's already given host and client programmes.
The other neat trick is the fact you can run stuff on one machine as long as it has a network connection. Therefore I can run a Host and a couple of Clients on one PC to check it all works okay, before I get a second PC set up.
Check out the info available from Surreal for BP, if you don't want to spend too much in case it's not what you want, then the lite version is very reasonably priced too.
IPete2.