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A Lament for the LAN Party
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Re: A Lament for the LAN Party
#122The most epic multiplayer Starcraft game I ever played was still on the Blood Bath map. We mined out everything, and when my battlecruisers tried to attack my friend's base, he stole them using his dark archon's mind control. Total battle of attrition. Thomas, kudos to you for being able to play 2 different Starcraft games at the same time on battle.net and win!
Blood Bath was an awesome map.
Re: A Lament for the LAN Party
#123Oh the LAN party... Me and my mates in Rio, around '99, would carry our PC towers, monitors, and backpacks of cables, keyboards and tech paraphernalia to our one of our apartments in Ipanema and set up wherever we could. There'd be maybe 4-6 of us. We'd spend maybe 4 hours trying to get all pcs "visible" to other pcs on the Windows network. At first we used coaxial cables and T plugs with a terminator at the last com…
"Did you all double check so that WINS is enabled??"
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#124The LAN party is still well and alive in the demoscene, in the form of demoparties which are basically LAN parties plus computer art. Some of them have become extremely large: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Assembly2004-areena01.jpg http://www.ozone3d.net/public/jegx/201308/asm2013.jpg
Don't forget about Dreamhack.
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#125We still do LAN parties once in a while.
Much easier today with laptops, haha.
But yeah, I remember the times back then, when we had to carry our PCs around town.
Always the guy with the 21" CRT that weighted a ton.
I was a cool guy when getting one of the first 17" TFTs :D
We also organised bigger events. Once a party for 500 people, with competitions and whatnot.
Yeah but now I don't do this big stuff anyore...
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#126Earlier quoted context omitted.
I can't speak much for the power setup since I'm on the networking/infrastructure side, but it's pretty hefty and accounted for with tons of wiggle room. The switch alone is a decent chunk of the power. Back when we were setting it up in winter, it was able to heat a full house while sitting idle :). For bandwidth, I'll be setting up an http cache server this weekend so that steam downloads (at least) can be retrieve…
Ubiquiti APs are nice if you want to use PoE or if you need a pre-packaged solution to manage a large number of them. They won't offer better wireless performance than cheaper consumer routers running OpenWRT/LEDE that use the same radios. Ubiquiti's routers are overrated.
> Ubiquiti's routers are overrated.
Why say that?
I'm a pfSense fanboi but was planning on recommending Ubiquiti kit for those not happy about spending the money to get pfSense capable hardware.
Re: A Lament for the LAN Party
#127Earlier quoted context omitted.
I can't speak much for the power setup since I'm on the networking/infrastructure side, but it's pretty hefty and accounted for with tons of wiggle room. The switch alone is a decent chunk of the power. Back when we were setting it up in winter, it was able to heat a full house while sitting idle :). For bandwidth, I'll be setting up an http cache server this weekend so that steam downloads (at least) can be retrieve…
Ubiquiti APs are nice if you want to use PoE or if you need a pre-packaged solution to manage a large number of them. They won't offer better wireless performance than cheaper consumer routers running OpenWRT/LEDE that use the same radios. Ubiquiti's routers are overrated.
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#128I loved lan parties. I hated moving my 17" CTX crt monitor to them. It was as deep as it was wide and must have weighed damn near 40 pounds. The future ain't all bad.
Heh, during college I bought a pallet of 500 Eizo monitors and resold them for a nice profit (covered my fees that year). I cherry picked the three nicest Eizo T965 monitors. Man was that a sweet setup.
Damn near broke my back, my desk and cooked my bedroom in Summer running it though. Needless to say LAN parties were hosted at my house since no way I'd be lugging that setup around!
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#130Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ubiquiti APs are nice if you want to use PoE or if you need a pre-packaged solution to manage a large number of them. They won't offer better wireless performance than cheaper consumer routers running OpenWRT/LEDE that use the same radios. Ubiquiti's routers are overrated.
> Ubiquiti's routers are overrated. Why say that? I'm a pfSense fanboi but was planning on recommending Ubiquiti kit for those not happy about spending the money to get pfSense capable hardware.
Ubiquiti's wired-only routers tend to be more expensive than a consumer wireless router with the same or better processor that can also be an access point. The EdgeRouter products are highly reliant on relatively inflexible packet processing hardware offloads that make it impossible to do things like use QoS/AQM techniques that are more modern than the CPU design, so their impressive specs won't necessarily translate to competitive real-world performance. (Not that it would matter when you use a BSD-derived router OS that hasn't been keeping up with those advancements.)