From c581e5c5e197ff017d733cc917a880e7239d2df2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: NepDisk <nepdisk@noreply.codeberg.org>
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2026 10:29:24 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Clamp softwarepacketlength to work around issues that have
 arozen on some networks

---
 src/d_net.c | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/d_net.c b/src/d_net.c
index ee9cf4f9c..18ca01f69 100644
--- a/src/d_net.c
+++ b/src/d_net.c
@@ -1242,7 +1242,11 @@ boolean D_CheckNetGame(void)
 			I_Error("usage: -bandwidth <byte_per_sec>");
 	}
 
+#if 0
 	software_MAXPACKETLENGTH = hardware_MAXPACKETLENGTH;
+#else
+	software_MAXPACKETLENGTH = 1500;
+#endif
 	if (M_CheckParm("-packetsize"))
 	{
 		if (M_IsNextParm())