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Ultimate Guide to Hosting a LAN Party

Posted by Hemos on from the planning-and-preparing dept.

WebWord writes "The title says it all. This really is the best damn guide to setting up a LAN party I have ever seen. They cover all the details from equipment to food to network protocols. Excellent!"

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  1. Wishy-washy namby-pamby corporate sponsored crap by Hypnos7787 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    That article was cleary written for morons, who overplan everything. IT IS A PARTY, not a damn business conference. Checking in indeed. Just get together, bring as much kit as you can get hold of and have fun setting it up half the night.

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    - Hypnos
  2. Re:This guy is too difficult! by BrookHarty · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Um, no. DHCP isnt hard to setup, and any linux geek could download dhcpd and the sample config works fine. And @home/dsl(some) peeps seem to use dhcp anyways, all lan parties I goto use DHCP so nobody has to give out settings. Plus you can do cool stuff like playing with DNS and redirects. So people can hit the fileservers without knowing its ips. http://files and they can get all the mods/patches.

    I personally love DHCP, I can plug in my work laptop at home and not reconfigure any tcp/ip settings. I even tweaked my dhcpd.conf so that my MAC address gets the same IP and network settings for VPN.

    Also, Now that switches are cheap, might as well spend the extra 10-20 bux and get a switch. 8 ports switches are like 40 bux now.

  3. Re:At School! by turbine216 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    you avoid the situation altogether by asking people to bring their own equipment. I know that in your particular situation, this wasn't really a possibility...but hey, that's the disadvantage of using someone else's LAN.