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Me and my friend are both getting launch X-Boxes, and have shared the cost of the link cable.
I also read somewhere in the Offical X-Box mag that they may try and organise LAN games.
Me and my friend are both getting launch X-Boxes, and have shared the cost of the link cable.
I also read somewhere in the Offical X-Box mag that they may try and organise LAN games.
Outlaw.
And I live in good 'ol Hampshire.
> 16 player Halo would be amazing it's just down to someone or somepeople having
> the facilities to hold that many T.V's and all those X-Box's.
You can only link up 4 X-Boxes, and have 4 players on each machine.
Anyway I live in Worcestershire.
Outlaw.
> That's why online Halo sounds even more appealing.
Outlaw.
If you have broadband internet you can use Halo online right away.
Outlaw
> That'll be really cool - come on 1st of April!!
Outlaw
Why 1st of April, you getting broadband?
If you have broadband internet you can use Halo online
> right away.
Apart from you need a PC (obviously thats no problem) and one of those network hub things...am I right ?
> adrian wrote:
If you have broadband internet you can use Halo online
>
> right away.
Apart from you need a PC (obviously thats no problem) and one of
> those network hub things...am I right ?
Yes you need a PC with a network card. A hub and an X-Box and a link cable. I dont know if you would be able to use a 56k modem or ISDN, as there could be a connection rate limit. If you could use these then you would be at a disadvantage. So broadband may be the only way.
So you connect the broadband to the HUB, the X-Box to the HUB and the PC to the HUB. You then download the proper software from gamespy, and just login. Then you go on to a LAN game on Halo and the software on the PC, makes the X-box think its playing a LAN game. But in reality the data is going over the internet, and the players could be over the other side of the world.
I have a mate who has a HUB, ISDN and a network card. I will see if I can try it out at his house to see whether a 64K ISDN connection actually works.