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Right, anyone who reads my posts once in a while (so about 3 of you then) should know that I’m a big fan of LAN gaming – servers full of LPBs fragging away in to the night, preferably with some good music, food, plenty of mates and a nice widescreen TV, complete with PS2 and Dreamcast for the occasional break.
Despite hounding MPUK and various local establishments, no-one seems willing to give a LAN in this area a try. “Fair enough”, I thought. “If you can’t be bothered, then I’ll do it”. I’ve set up LANs, I’ve set up small ones at my house even, so why shouldn’t I be able to do this…
Basically, I’m looking for any advice you could offer – anyone who’s been to a LAN, what did you enjoy? What did you like about it, and what are some common faults you’ve found…Anyone who has organised one themselves at some point, what particular problems did you face?
Specifically regarding one area which I’m concerned about, what power supply issues should I be aware of? I don’t know too much about circuits (although I’m taking my electronics course at the moment, picking up a bit more), I just don’t want the circuit breakers to kick in half-way through the event and cut everyone’s games short.
I’m fine with small-scale setups, but anything beyond about 6 is unchartered territory for me. 16 PCs and monitors in one room, along with TV, sound setup, and whatever force feedback peripherals people may bring, are sure to cause problems on a normal circuit – does anyone know what I should be looking for in a venue to prevent such problems? Small villages aren’t great for event halls, there are a few but they’re not very advanced locations, I wouldn’t trust the power supply personally. Alternatively, what other solutions could I look at? Small generators?
I’m pretty much ok as far as knowing what hardware I need, I have the equipment for the server and some of the networking, but I’m still looking for this hub. Like I said, my budget isn’t massive, I’m only 14 – even getting the trust to run it is an achievement for me, but I can’t go past a few hundred quid for the whole thing really.
Needless to say, anyone from SR in north Essex is welcome…and cheers in advance for any help.
Despite hounding MPUK and various local establishments, no-one seems willing to give a LAN in this area a try. “Fair enough”, I thought. “If you can’t be bothered, then I’ll do it”. I’ve set up LANs, I’ve set up small ones at my house even, so why shouldn’t I be able to do this…
Basically, I’m looking for any advice you could offer – anyone who’s been to a LAN, what did you enjoy? What did you like about it, and what are some common faults you’ve found…Anyone who has organised one themselves at some point, what particular problems did you face?
Specifically regarding one area which I’m concerned about, what power supply issues should I be aware of? I don’t know too much about circuits (although I’m taking my electronics course at the moment, picking up a bit more), I just don’t want the circuit breakers to kick in half-way through the event and cut everyone’s games short.
I’m fine with small-scale setups, but anything beyond about 6 is unchartered territory for me. 16 PCs and monitors in one room, along with TV, sound setup, and whatever force feedback peripherals people may bring, are sure to cause problems on a normal circuit – does anyone know what I should be looking for in a venue to prevent such problems? Small villages aren’t great for event halls, there are a few but they’re not very advanced locations, I wouldn’t trust the power supply personally. Alternatively, what other solutions could I look at? Small generators?
I’m pretty much ok as far as knowing what hardware I need, I have the equipment for the server and some of the networking, but I’m still looking for this hub. Like I said, my budget isn’t massive, I’m only 14 – even getting the trust to run it is an achievement for me, but I can’t go past a few hundred quid for the whole thing really.
Needless to say, anyone from SR in north Essex is welcome…and cheers in advance for any help.
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Power should be OK. Your'd be supprised how much juice a normal house can provide. The bigest problem we have had is getting the PC's to talk to each other. We usually have a collection of windows 98, windows ME and win 2k machines and it can take a while to set up. You need some people there who know how to network and something for people to o while they wait. Apart from that just comfortable seeting/lying down space is nice.
The domain I administered on the contract before this one had a UPS on the server.
If the power got cut the server we would have a couple of hours juice in the UPS, to bring it down cleanly.
16 PCs though... you'd need a whopper of a UPS!!
If the power got cut the server we would have a couple of hours juice in the UPS, to bring it down cleanly.
16 PCs though... you'd need a whopper of a UPS!!
Right, anyone who reads my posts once in a while (so about 3 of you then) should know that I’m a big fan of LAN gaming – servers full of LPBs fragging away in to the night, preferably with some good music, food, plenty of mates and a nice widescreen TV, complete with PS2 and Dreamcast for the occasional break.
Despite hounding MPUK and various local establishments, no-one seems willing to give a LAN in this area a try. “Fair enough”, I thought. “If you can’t be bothered, then I’ll do it”. I’ve set up LANs, I’ve set up small ones at my house even, so why shouldn’t I be able to do this…
Basically, I’m looking for any advice you could offer – anyone who’s been to a LAN, what did you enjoy? What did you like about it, and what are some common faults you’ve found…Anyone who has organised one themselves at some point, what particular problems did you face?
Specifically regarding one area which I’m concerned about, what power supply issues should I be aware of? I don’t know too much about circuits (although I’m taking my electronics course at the moment, picking up a bit more), I just don’t want the circuit breakers to kick in half-way through the event and cut everyone’s games short.
I’m fine with small-scale setups, but anything beyond about 6 is unchartered territory for me. 16 PCs and monitors in one room, along with TV, sound setup, and whatever force feedback peripherals people may bring, are sure to cause problems on a normal circuit – does anyone know what I should be looking for in a venue to prevent such problems? Small villages aren’t great for event halls, there are a few but they’re not very advanced locations, I wouldn’t trust the power supply personally. Alternatively, what other solutions could I look at? Small generators?
I’m pretty much ok as far as knowing what hardware I need, I have the equipment for the server and some of the networking, but I’m still looking for this hub. Like I said, my budget isn’t massive, I’m only 14 – even getting the trust to run it is an achievement for me, but I can’t go past a few hundred quid for the whole thing really.
Needless to say, anyone from SR in north Essex is welcome…and cheers in advance for any help.
Despite hounding MPUK and various local establishments, no-one seems willing to give a LAN in this area a try. “Fair enough”, I thought. “If you can’t be bothered, then I’ll do it”. I’ve set up LANs, I’ve set up small ones at my house even, so why shouldn’t I be able to do this…
Basically, I’m looking for any advice you could offer – anyone who’s been to a LAN, what did you enjoy? What did you like about it, and what are some common faults you’ve found…Anyone who has organised one themselves at some point, what particular problems did you face?
Specifically regarding one area which I’m concerned about, what power supply issues should I be aware of? I don’t know too much about circuits (although I’m taking my electronics course at the moment, picking up a bit more), I just don’t want the circuit breakers to kick in half-way through the event and cut everyone’s games short.
I’m fine with small-scale setups, but anything beyond about 6 is unchartered territory for me. 16 PCs and monitors in one room, along with TV, sound setup, and whatever force feedback peripherals people may bring, are sure to cause problems on a normal circuit – does anyone know what I should be looking for in a venue to prevent such problems? Small villages aren’t great for event halls, there are a few but they’re not very advanced locations, I wouldn’t trust the power supply personally. Alternatively, what other solutions could I look at? Small generators?
I’m pretty much ok as far as knowing what hardware I need, I have the equipment for the server and some of the networking, but I’m still looking for this hub. Like I said, my budget isn’t massive, I’m only 14 – even getting the trust to run it is an achievement for me, but I can’t go past a few hundred quid for the whole thing really.
Needless to say, anyone from SR in north Essex is welcome…and cheers in advance for any help.
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