[liquidwar-user] Trouble playing over LAN

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Liquid War plays great on a single machine, but when me and my friend 
try to play it over the LAN it is impossible. The lag is such that one 
can not even move the cursor more than 10 pixels over the duration of 
the game. Teams barely have the opportunity for their armies to meet 
before the time runs out even if time limit is set to maximum.
Running LW5.5.9 on Win98 on a 400Mhz PII with 320Mb and a 1.2Ghz AMD 
with 256Mb over 10Mbit ethernet LAN. Running server using the default 
batch file.
Liquid War is set to same default rules and map settings on all 
machines. Same problem arises regardless of which machine is running the 
Liquid War server. Both the client machine and client running on the 
server machine.
Another problem is the team colours get mixed up. We had set one team 
colour to blue and the other team colour to red on both clients, but the 
client machine which isn't running on the server machine changes its 
team colours to orange and I forget the other colour it changed, but it 
wasn't red or blue anyway...
Anyone know what I'm doing wrong?