[GLLUG] Laurel Park Room

[Caleb Cushing]

ever hear of a patch? or a mod? they may also want to connect to play on an
online server, half-life 2 requires steam authentication from there internet
servers to play (there is a legit way around it but I wouldn't expect people
to have it done, and it requires internet to do) they wouldn't need access
to our subnet. but trust me they'll want the internet, and they'll need it
open... because games can use all sorts of various crazy ports... If they
have to run it through the same internet line as us they may hog it, we
still might want to consider installing a box as a router that can handle
connection throttling that way no one person can hog the line. LAN parties
are fun but setting them up can be a pain, I used to go to one that occurred
once a term at baker and it always took us two hours to get people in there
and up for gaming, because people would come in... need to install the game
we were playing, then they would have to get a patch, if we were playing
with mods or custom maps, they needed to get those...

I remember we were playing counterstrike source (which will most definitely
be there) but we were using a hack. well i owned it legally but I was 1 of 2
of maybe 30, and I had to get the crack because the legal version didn't
work with the crack. We can also expect a very large increase of piracy if
the gamer's are in the same room...

On 3/7/06, Charles Tower <c.e.tower at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Why do gamers need access to our network?  Let them set up their own and
> we won't have to worry about their traffic.  They don't need internet
> access for LAN parties.
>
>                                 Chick
>
>
> Caleb Cushing wrote:
> > you can expect them to bring fairly powerful gaming machines. you can
> > also expect that our problems have just doubled... perhaps we should
> > try to get Tom to one of our meetings if feasibly possible. We need
> to > take his network design into account with ours, because more than
> > likely they'll end up using more external bandwidth than us. They'll
> > use it for things other than simple web browsing.
>
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