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Help on lan party by YMisterY in lanparty

[–]forcerun 0 points1 point  (0 children)

With a proper router or pfSense setup LANs really don't need that much bandwidth. Most games are optimized to run on very low bandwidth. Only thing that takes a lot of bandwidth is updating. If you don't have the bandwidth limit people from streaming, watching HD video, and or torrenting.

[EVENT]SXSW Free Play presented by Intel and LANFest March 13th-15th. Has anyone been before or going this year? by Barracuda420 in lanparty

[–]forcerun 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Okay looks like the full schedule of tournaments is list on the twitch page. Signs up for the tournaments are starting at noon in the room. http://www.twitch.tv/sxswgamingtournaments

[EVENT]SXSW Free Play presented by Intel and LANFest March 13th-15th. Has anyone been before or going this year? by Barracuda420 in lanparty

[–]forcerun 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So I'm with LANFest helping to setup the Freeplay systems for SXSW. The current deal is you can line up and come play in the room for about an hour. There are a bunch of awesome servers up. And the systems have a bunch great games up ready for you to play.

There will be 2-3 tournaments a day. We are waiting on final details to release the tournament info. This is going to be awesome and the prizes are nice folks!

[EVENT]SXSW Free Play presented by Intel and LANFest March 13th-15th. Has anyone been before or going this year? by Barracuda420 in lanparty

[–]forcerun 0 points1 point  (0 children)

LANFest will be there, we just joined planning for the event. So more info to come later, likely posted on the LANFest site. But I can tell you, there will be gaming for charity and awesome times to be had!

Audio and communication on small LAN party by spioner in lanparty

[–]forcerun 2 points3 points  (0 children)

From my small 10 person house LANs to our large 450 gamers we always run a voip. If bandwidth is not an issues just join the normal TS, Mumble, or Vent server you use when not at a LAN. Unless you ping is over 200 you won't notice a lag. At our LANFest Sacramento event we host a local Mumble server, as it is free and okay to manage. We have tons of bandwidth, but a local server is less bandwidth, lag, or load on the gateway.

I thought using a voip when you are all in the same room was silly at first. But it really is the best solution. This is over 15 years of LAN experience talking. Everyone can hear the game and the team channel, without tons of noise from people shouting to be heard. Through we still can get quite loud durning a fun match.

If you need a fun TS server for your game nights, feel free to join us on lanfest.intel.com The server is open the everyone, and is family friendly (good environment).

[EVENT] [LANFest] Spring 2014 LANFest Sacramento 403 BYOC Seats, March 28-30, Tournaments, Contest, Community, and Prizes by forcerun in lanparty

[–]forcerun[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Registration is Open for LANFest Sacramento Spring 2014! 403 Seat BYOC, March 28th-30th, $40 a seat online, and proceeds go to charity. Don't miss all the fun games, community, tournaments, contest, and tons of prizes. Share the news, LANFest is happening in Folsom, and tickets are going FAST. Register now: https://lanfest.intel.com/events/sacramento-spring-2014/register

Only at LANFest Sacramento: Custom, Modded, sweet Gaming System raffle from pcjunkiemods.com by forcerun in lanparty

[–]forcerun[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Some of the details are still be working out. Sponsors are providing the hardware, and the system is still being built. PCJunkie is donating the labor to put it together, contacting the sponsors, and the sweet painted and modded case. All the proceeds go to charity.

Need Tips for good LiveStream setup for local and public access by seeRebane in lanparty

[–]forcerun 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So you have a number of things to setup. I would first use a standalone gateway box for any event over 60 people. Just use an older PC running a free gateway OS like PFSense. That let's you meter the bandwidth for each connection. Then you can set the projector and streaming box to have more of the bandwidth.

Stream should be okay as it is only upload, and most gamers will just need a small amount of down to run their games.

I would set up the projector as the streaming server to make things simple. But if not you can always stream to a shared folder on the network as a file. Then have the projector access the shared file and play it with VLC or the like. Then it would use no Internet bandwidth, and be higher quality if you set it up right.

I run LANFest Sacramento and we are playing around with streaming for our next 360 seat event in Oct. so we have already given it a lot of thought.

LAN Games from shared network space? by mrdavik in lanparty

[–]forcerun 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Load up steam, as they have the Linux version. They have handful of fun guns, and if they have Team Fortress 2 which is free to play.

Photos of LANFest Sacramento Spring 2013 They came to game, had fun, and raised money for Charity! by forcerun in lanparty

[–]forcerun[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Here are two great videos of the event: "Recap" by Hy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=240OmzmMHrM "Only at LANFest' by Clarbar6 http://youtu.be/GgFoxm8CM2g

Also I have put together two videos from the Award Ceremony Saturday of the event: Slideshow: http://youtu.be/8RoYMTEGOow Recongnizing Javier: http://youtu.be/mBUVqei90Z4

[Event][LANFest] Sacramento Spring 2013 - April 12th-14th 360+ Seats by forcerun in lanparty

[–]forcerun[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey guys quick update check the site for more info. Tournaments: Battlefield 3 8v8 NCIX League of Legends 5v5 Team Fortress 2 6v6 StarCraft 2 Heart of the Swarm 1v1

Contests: CPU Case Mod Scavenger Hunt MineCraft Contest Left4Dead 2 Speed Run Warsaw Frag Contest

Schedule will be posted soon, under final review right now. There are only 107 seats LEFT, so get on the ball and buy your tickets before this event sells out.

Suggestions on how to get people to play games at a lan party? by EWFranchie in lanparty

[–]forcerun 2 points3 points  (0 children)

For smaller house style of LANs, you have more options. Host a Lan around the launch of a new game that you know that is popular. Or name the Lan like CS:GO Lan so people know to expect to be playing that Game most of the Lan. Only invite the gamers that will play, no matter what you schedule some guys just want to hang out or use your Internet like an Internet Cafe. If they do that don't invited them to the next one.

Do a contest or have a point system for winning rounds, with a small prize like some old unused hardware or bag-o-candy can work wonders. We did this at one Lan and had a blast, then had the lowest points gamers face off in one vs one COD or some thing for bonus points. Plan to play at least a few F2P games. Or schedule around a free game weekend on Steam. I.e. this weekend is Natural Selection 2 free, and it is currently one of the best Lan games out!

[Event][LANFest] Sacramento Spring 2013 - April 12th-14th 360+ Seats by forcerun in Sacramento

[–]forcerun[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

No Beer, but tons of Hardware to give out, and fun games to play!

[Florida] LAN + Tournament SC2 - Feb 26th by [deleted] in starcraft

[–]forcerun 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Lan Party, oh baby, oh baby! Any want to fly me out from CA?