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Re: Show HN: I built a(nother) house optimized for LAN parties

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Post by mattbee »

zamalek wrote: post #210
Multiplayer wrote: post #49

As the former proprietor of LanParty.com (which I mistakenly included in a sale to IGN) I must salute you. The absolute genius of the provided lan equipment and particularly the management thereof is an inspiration. I think the lack of any standing offerings of variations of Quake is a glaring mistake but easily rectified. :) It's really heartening to see lan gaming continued and offered in such a way that the amount…

I remember our biggest issue being IP addresses. We had no router, or expertise, so we were at the whims of automatic addresses (254.x... as far as I recall?). Good times.

I've definitely been to a LAN party where IP addresses were written on clothes pegs by the entrance. You take a peg on your way in, clip it to your ethernet cable, configure that IP statically!

Re: Show HN: I built a(nother) house optimized for LAN parties

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Post by hehehheh »

ratmeadow wrote: post #92

Not the best use of resources considering we are in a housing crisis. Another thing on the list of things wealthy people think they need...

Flipside: they created more housing, in a place where people want it. He even said prices in Austin are falling because of development.

Re: Show HN: I built a(nother) house optimized for LAN parties

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Post by tarasglek »

kentonv wrote: post #58
RulerOf wrote: post #44

> I've never heard of anyone else having done anything like this. This surprises me! But, surely, if someone else did it, someone would have told me about it? If you know of another, please let me know! I never had the tenacity to consider my build "finished," and definitely didn't have your budget, but I built a 5-player room[1] for DotA 2 back in 2013. I got really lucky with hardware selection and ended up fightin…

Hah, you really did the VM thing? A lot of people have suggested that to me but I didn't think it'd actually work. Pretty cool! Yeah I'm pretty sure my onboard 10G Marvell AQtion ethernet is the source of most of my stability woes. About half the time any of these machines boot up, Windows bluescreens within the first couple minutes, and I think it has something to do with the iSCSI service crashing. Never had troubl…

I am not a gamer, but I found that https://moonlight-stream.org/ latency when streaming from my server to mbp is lower than that of my projector directly connected to said server. Might be easier to just get a beefy server with gpu passthrough than fight 10gbe drivers on 10 machines. Amd cards seem to work amazing for passthrough.

Re: Show HN: I built a(nother) house optimized for LAN parties

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Post by amluto »

ThatPlayer wrote: post #239
kentonv wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hah, you really did the VM thing? A lot of people have suggested that to me but I didn't think it'd actually work. Pretty cool! Yeah I'm pretty sure my onboard 10G Marvell AQtion ethernet is the source of most of my stability woes. About half the time any of these machines boot up, Windows bluescreens within the first couple minutes, and I think it has something to do with the iSCSI service crashing. Never had troubl…

I've done a multi-seat gaming VM back in the day too. I don't think I'd want to do it again. Assigning hotplug USB devices was a pain: I mostly wanted unique USB devices per computer to easily figure which device was which. Though nowadays I would probably use a thin client Raspberry Pi running Moonlight to do it cheaply. I think another issue is the limited amount of PCI-E lanes now that HEDT is dead. I picked up a…

If you’re on an Intel chip that supports “Resource Director,” you can assign most of your cache to a VM. I have no idea whether AMD can do this. I’ve also never done it, and I don’t know how well KVM supports it.

Re: Show HN: I built a(nother) house optimized for LAN parties

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Post by tossandthrow »

hunter2_ wrote: post #226
zamalek wrote: post #210

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I remember our biggest issue being IP addresses. We had no router, or expertise, so we were at the whims of automatic addresses (254.x... as far as I recall?). Good times.

Windows will self-assign from 169.254/16 in the absence of a DHCP server.

Also 15 years ago?

Re: Show HN: I built a(nother) house optimized for LAN parties

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Post by amluto »

kentonv wrote: post #58
RulerOf wrote: post #44

> I've never heard of anyone else having done anything like this. This surprises me! But, surely, if someone else did it, someone would have told me about it? If you know of another, please let me know! I never had the tenacity to consider my build "finished," and definitely didn't have your budget, but I built a 5-player room[1] for DotA 2 back in 2013. I got really lucky with hardware selection and ended up fightin…

Hah, you really did the VM thing? A lot of people have suggested that to me but I didn't think it'd actually work. Pretty cool! Yeah I'm pretty sure my onboard 10G Marvell AQtion ethernet is the source of most of my stability woes. About half the time any of these machines boot up, Windows bluescreens within the first couple minutes, and I think it has something to do with the iSCSI service crashing. Never had troubl…

Just buy used 10G hardware from an HFT firm :). Seriously, though, 10G gear is cheap these days.

I bet one could put an unreasonable amount of effort into convincing an Nvidia Bluefield card to pretend to be a disk well enough to get Windows to mount it. I imagine that AWS is doing something along those lines too, but with more cheap chips and less Nvidia markup…

There has got to be a way to convince Windows to do an overlay block device that involves magic words like “thin provisioning”. But two seconds of searching didn’t find it. Every self-respecting OS (Linux, FreeBSD, etc) has had this capability for decades, of course. Amusingly, AFAICT, major clouds also mostly lack this capability — performance of the obvious solution in AWS (boot everything off an AMI) is notoriously poorly performing.

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Post by kelnos »

bigstrat2003 wrote: post #118
laidoffamazon wrote: post #108

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I spend about $3.2k a month for a studio apartment in an HCOL area. I don’t even own a car.

You need to move, yesterday. Yes, moving sucks. No, ideally you wouldn't have to. But at the end of the day you are just plain shooting yourself in the foot if you continue to live in a place that absurdly expensive. Like dude, you could buy an awesome house in just about any other part of the country if you truly have $1m in liquid wealth. You have options to own a house, you just have to act on them.

Some people value other things than homeownership.

Some people value living in their area (regardless of what it costs) for reasons that make moving undesirable.

Re: Show HN: I built a(nother) house optimized for LAN parties

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Post by animal531 »

zamalek wrote: post #210
Multiplayer wrote: post #49

As the former proprietor of LanParty.com (which I mistakenly included in a sale to IGN) I must salute you. The absolute genius of the provided lan equipment and particularly the management thereof is an inspiration. I think the lack of any standing offerings of variations of Quake is a glaring mistake but easily rectified. :) It's really heartening to see lan gaming continued and offered in such a way that the amount…

I remember our biggest issue being IP addresses. We had no router, or expertise, so we were at the whims of automatic addresses (254.x... as far as I recall?). Good times.

Oof. Back in the day friends and I would get together to LAN and the first few hours would just be fiddling with network cards, cables, terminators and software.

There was always someone who would just be totally unable to connect with someone else.

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