• Game Requests. Request a game from another player only when you have chatted with them. Sometimes people forget to set "away" when they switch applications, they may not see your request, or they may be downloading. To do this, highlight the player (more than one by holding down "control" key) and click game request.
• Ping. Ping players before playing them. This is done by clicking the Ping (ip) button below the user list. Pings over 450 will limit the game to a 1 vs 1 for a fairly playable game because the 450 or higher ping will really kill a 3-or-more player game. However players with good providers or fast connections can still have playable 3-4 player games since there is enough usuable bandwidth. The average modem user however will have best games at 300 ping or less.
• Frame-Skipping. Frame-Skipping is the equivalent of ticdup in the original dos doom game. It is what it says, it "skips" some of the movements of players it sends to each other to make up for slow connections. Sure, you won't see as fluid of movement, but without it, Doom2 may as well stay in a Lan environment. For 2-players, a value of 3 is good for pings over 350 to 450, and f/s of 2 is good for less than 350. However, in real-life this isn't always the case. Experiment with settings, starting at two, and set it higher if you wish for faster movement. For 3-4 players, and average ping is around 350-450, 5 is a good setting. Frame skipping over 7 usually makes it difficult to mouse-aim and can make it hard to dodge rockets.
• Turbo. Any speed up to 100 is not considered turbo and won't be announced in game. Anything over 100 up to 250 zdoom anounces the quickened players to each other during gameplay, and makes it harder to see player messages in-between turbo announcements. It also can be used in conjunction with lower Frame-skipping to speed up movement without losing some fluid movement. For Example: Frame Skip of 2 with turbo setting of 120 has been known to produce a good game even with pings of 400ms.
• External Wads. Tired of playing episode 1, map 1 or map 7? Doomserv 3.# and up is a good thing. No longer having to hunt down websites for needed wadfiles. Players can now upload what they play for others to enjoy. Then others get a list from the server and can download wadfiles for games.
• Getting the wad. When the External Wad "?" button is pressed, you will receive a list of available wads on the server. They are zip files. Not sure how big the file is or are concerned? Click the "size" button for info in bytes how big the zip file is on the server. Then when you are ready to get it click the “->” button. When you choose an external to play, and when you don't have it, Doomserv will ask you to download it. What Doomserv does is unzip the downloaded zip file to the correct place (the Doomserv\wads directory). A copy of the zipped file is still on your machine, in the Doomserv\received directory in zip format.

1. Make sure both computers are connected and the com ports where the cable plugs into each computer is known. (com1-com4).
2. Each computer starts up Doom95
3. Both people pick "null-modem connection" in the connection menu.
   
4. Each person picks the same configuration as far as deathmatch I or II, No monsters, or Fast Monsters.
5. Each person picks the same level to start on, and any external wadfile they choose. Again, identical settings are crucial. The only item which can differ between them is com port usage. However the speed setting picked should be the same.
   • Note: there are a few null-modem cables out there allowing one computer to have a com port used and a parallel port used on the other. This is not recommended, as this is prone to problems. Keep the port usage to com ports.
6. both people start the game on their computers. If there is a computer which loads doom2 faster, let that one start a little behind the other, which seems to help things.
7. there should be some jargon on screen like "connecting to 14440 1" look for "connection accepted"
8. if you encounter consistency errors, make sure both computers' game settings are identical, and make sure that the external wadfile if used, is exactly the same on both computers.

Doom95 does not resolve addresses, and doomlnch.dll certainly can't do that for you. That is why there is no way to type in an ip address in order to join that game. If you are already connected to another computer in some type of private network, that is where Doom95 does well to connect players. Unless using a gaming service, you cannot reach another player using the logic that the two of you are connected to the internet. It works with a lot of games out there, but Doom95 wasn't created for that purpose. I'm working on the ICQ part, since I know there is a way to play Doom95 using ICQ. I'm working on that part. Look for updates in the near future.