Full Version: Any one from newyork ?
Havent been here in a while ...divorce does alot... Some of you may remeber me ?? I was going through tuff time with my sons cancer when i met alot of you ..Well im back and free!!!., lol... but want to throw a lan party wondering if any one could help/ be interested in going ?? im in central ny get ahold of me at catman25@gmail.com
Hey Cat...everything ok... 
QUOTE(UnTold-Pain @ Mar 9 2006, 05:08 PM) 
Hey Cat...everything ok...
hey! everything good.Had to give up some fun for a while...Bought a house and 5 months later wife left . i got custody of kids and trying to cope with not having "her" around ... check this out if ya want
http://mysite.verizon.net/catmandoyou25/index.html
What is your definition of 'central NY'? Rome/Utica Area?
QUOTE(Coz @ Mar 9 2006, 08:46 PM)
What is your definition of 'central NY'? Rome/Utica Area?
auburn area... missing the days we played sof.....or what game waz it ?? lol...i got sposors and need to find the place but looking for network expertise...What is needed to support 30-40 people lan ?
QUOTE(catman25 @ Mar 9 2006, 10:01 PM)
auburn area... missing the days we played sof.....or what game waz it ?? lol...i got sposors and need to find the place but looking for network expertise...What is needed to support 30-40 people lan ?
Hey Catman25!
I hosted a few lan parties, but not for 5 years now... High speed and big monitors makes it easy for most peeps to stay and play at home.
The really old site (Don't expect much... I'm no web page designer
)http://users.eastlink.ca/~nbond/FragFest/Page.html
The most we ever had was 20... and power was the issue that day as we cooked an extension cord... (Don't use extension cords...)
You'll need a couple of DECENT 24 port switches, and by decent I mean if you can borrow a pair of SMC's, 3Com's, HP's or Cisco's you'll not have any problems... The problems arise when you get a bunch of 16 port DLinks all hooked together... The "HOME" switches ($250 variety) are exactly that home switches, they'll let you down as any lan party turns into an ISO / Giga pr0n swap session at some point... You'll have some folks wanting to play and the other half sucking up all the bandwidth ganking ISO's and looking through buddies well sorted and indexed pr0n collection... (There is atleast one at every LAN
)The comercial switches handle the "Switching" without a hitch... the cheapies get saturated.
With 40 peeps you'll need to inquire about the power feed, If you holding it in a proper venue, power should suffice, just spread the powebars around... lot's O power bars...
A box of CAT5, some ends and a crimp tool are handy to have as well since patch cords do go bad, you can pinch out a quick patch cord in seconds if you have the supplies on hand. We always had a few spare ether cards on hand as well... Realtek's are less than $10 and work fine.
Headphones are MANDATORY for everyone... Gets real ugly with everyone having speakers...
Virus's can work real havoc with switches today, we see it in the shop at times, someone plugs in a box that hasn't been scanned and all the lights on the switch start to flash rapidly... Others can't go anywhere, local servers can't be seen etc... So be prepeared to unhook someone till they clean thier machine. Yes there are folks out there who run with no virus protection, or it expired or just stopped working... (That's Wierd
)Lastly you'll need a couple of FAST servers to host your games on and provide DHCP to the peeps. Lock these servers down, otherwise there will be geeks nosing through the works... Nothing worse than a good competition going and some clown shuts it all down working his remote management skillz on your server...
Have a plan to the days events and stick to it, at my LAN we had a no substance policy... Your drunk or stoned keep moving... Too much expensive gear for someone to stumble into...
We also had a "You brought the guy, YOU look after him" in effect as well... Too many times I spent fixing up some bozo's windows, networking, etc... If your coming to the event prepare you computer...
All in all it's alot of work but one hell of a good time. I dont know if this helps you out any, or how much of it you already know... This has been my experience and it was a great one.
I hope it's the same great experience for you and post your event up on http://www.lanparty.com
my thought of 40-50 people is starting to look smaller.places to hold this affair arent panning out .getting stressed!how powerful does a server have to be?Im running a amd 64 3200+ with 1 gig of ddr is that enough ?how many computers can i netwrok and still be able to play?This poast weekend i lanned 4 computers and soon it will be 6 just to test things out.I got a quote from staples for networking this thing.. guess how much they said (1800)$$$ first time i ever told anybody to f themselves.Lookign at thier 24 port switches and wondering cant you daisy chain them ?Guess you figured out i dont know much.The files being tampered part..cant you turn of file sharing ?in windows network wizard to beat this problem ?cheap place to buy spool of cat 5 cable??any help is deeply appreciated...Checked some hotels and holiday inn is booked.Huge place!!!! days inn is maybe. 30 x 30 feet.. not very roomy if alot of people show up...Cant seem to find anyplace open 5 till 10:00 in am!hopefully my man can get the highland golf banquet room!he works there and should get it for free and he's into gaming so it will work...thats 128 sq. feet...im up on lan party and seems like a good place for info.Check my site .. pretty lame??? getting shirts done up with the main page logo on it. lan party webpage
QUOTE(Troll @ Mar 12 2006, 11:20 AM)
Hey Catman25!
I hosted a few lan parties, but not for 5 years now... High speed and big monitors makes it easy for most peeps to stay and play at home.
The really old site (Don't expect much... I'm no web page designer )
http://users.eastlink.ca/~nbond/FragFest/Page.html
The most we ever had was 20... and power was the issue that day as we cooked an extension cord... (Don't use extension cords...)
You'll need a couple of DECENT 24 port switches, and by decent I mean if you can borrow a pair of SMC's, 3Com's, HP's or Cisco's you'll not have any problems... The problems arise when you get a bunch of 16 port DLinks all hooked together... The "HOME" switches ($250 variety) are exactly that home switches, they'll let you down as any lan party turns into an ISO / Giga pr0n swap session at some point... You'll have some folks wanting to play and the other half sucking up all the bandwidth ganking ISO's and looking through buddies well sorted and indexed pr0n collection... (There is atleast one at every LAN )
The comercial switches handle the "Switching" without a hitch... the cheapies get saturated.
With 40 peeps you'll need to inquire about the power feed, If you holding it in a proper venue, power should suffice, just spread the powebars around... lot's O power bars...
A box of CAT5, some ends and a crimp tool are handy to have as well since patch cords do go bad, you can pinch out a quick patch cord in seconds if you have the supplies on hand. We always had a few spare ether cards on hand as well... Realtek's are less than $10 and work fine.
Headphones are MANDATORY for everyone... Gets real ugly with everyone having speakers...
Virus's can work real havoc with switches today, we see it in the shop at times, someone plugs in a box that hasn't been scanned and all the lights on the switch start to flash rapidly... Others can't go anywhere, local servers can't be seen etc... So be prepeared to unhook someone till they clean thier machine. Yes there are folks out there who run with no virus protection, or it expired or just stopped working... (That's Wierd )
Lastly you'll need a couple of FAST servers to host your games on and provide DHCP to the peeps. Lock these servers down, otherwise there will be geeks nosing through the works... Nothing worse than a good competition going and some clown shuts it all down working his remote management skillz on your server...
Have a plan to the days events and stick to it, at my LAN we had a no substance policy... Your drunk or stoned keep moving... Too much expensive gear for someone to stumble into...
We also had a "You brought the guy, YOU look after him" in effect as well... Too many times I spent fixing up some bozo's windows, networking, etc... If your coming to the event prepare you computer...
All in all it's alot of work but one hell of a good time. I dont know if this helps you out any, or how much of it you already know... This has been my experience and it was a great one.
I hope it's the same great experience for you and post your event up on http://www.lanparty.com
I hosted a few lan parties, but not for 5 years now... High speed and big monitors makes it easy for most peeps to stay and play at home.
The really old site (Don't expect much... I'm no web page designer
)http://users.eastlink.ca/~nbond/FragFest/Page.html
The most we ever had was 20... and power was the issue that day as we cooked an extension cord... (Don't use extension cords...)
You'll need a couple of DECENT 24 port switches, and by decent I mean if you can borrow a pair of SMC's, 3Com's, HP's or Cisco's you'll not have any problems... The problems arise when you get a bunch of 16 port DLinks all hooked together... The "HOME" switches ($250 variety) are exactly that home switches, they'll let you down as any lan party turns into an ISO / Giga pr0n swap session at some point... You'll have some folks wanting to play and the other half sucking up all the bandwidth ganking ISO's and looking through buddies well sorted and indexed pr0n collection... (There is atleast one at every LAN
)The comercial switches handle the "Switching" without a hitch... the cheapies get saturated.
With 40 peeps you'll need to inquire about the power feed, If you holding it in a proper venue, power should suffice, just spread the powebars around... lot's O power bars...
A box of CAT5, some ends and a crimp tool are handy to have as well since patch cords do go bad, you can pinch out a quick patch cord in seconds if you have the supplies on hand. We always had a few spare ether cards on hand as well... Realtek's are less than $10 and work fine.
Headphones are MANDATORY for everyone... Gets real ugly with everyone having speakers...
Virus's can work real havoc with switches today, we see it in the shop at times, someone plugs in a box that hasn't been scanned and all the lights on the switch start to flash rapidly... Others can't go anywhere, local servers can't be seen etc... So be prepeared to unhook someone till they clean thier machine. Yes there are folks out there who run with no virus protection, or it expired or just stopped working... (That's Wierd
)Lastly you'll need a couple of FAST servers to host your games on and provide DHCP to the peeps. Lock these servers down, otherwise there will be geeks nosing through the works... Nothing worse than a good competition going and some clown shuts it all down working his remote management skillz on your server...
Have a plan to the days events and stick to it, at my LAN we had a no substance policy... Your drunk or stoned keep moving... Too much expensive gear for someone to stumble into...
We also had a "You brought the guy, YOU look after him" in effect as well... Too many times I spent fixing up some bozo's windows, networking, etc... If your coming to the event prepare you computer...
All in all it's alot of work but one hell of a good time. I dont know if this helps you out any, or how much of it you already know... This has been my experience and it was a great one.
I hope it's the same great experience for you and post your event up on http://www.lanparty.com
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