Hosting a LAN Party Without Network? - Hardware & Software

Take a really long Ethernet cable and just fucking jack it into some Ethernet port in some classroom. I wish someone would be doing these kinds of LAN parties around here, would be cool seeing like 10 people access the web over my phone and probably melt it.

[QUOTE=nikomo;28862098]Take a really long Ethernet cable and just fucking jack it into some Ethernet port in some classroom. I wish someone would be doing these kinds of LAN parties around here, would be cool seeing like 10 people access the web over my phone and probably melt it.[/QUOTE] He was denied access to use the school's network to host it, it's probably fairly illegal to get access to it for this, especially after specifically being denied. [QUOTE=blacksam;28858822]Ok so let's say we've got something like this [url]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833156001&cm_re=dhcp-_-33-156-001-_-Product[/url] Wire everyone into a simple game with ethernet that doesn't require internet connection. Is it just that easy? [editline]28th March 2011[/editline] Yes [editline]28th March 2011[/editline] How messy is doing an ad-hoc?[/QUOTE] Just a switch is pretty easy, you can easily manually assign IP addresses since you only have a few people coming. How many exactly? I've never done an ad-hoc, but if your computers are wireless-enabled, it should be cheaper than buying a switch. For statically assigning IP addresses, all you need to do is go into the control panel make one computer's IP address 192.168.1.1 with a subnet mask of 255.255.255.0, then the next computer 192.168.1.2 with a subnet mask of 255.255.255.0, and make sure no one has the same last digit as their IP address. It's really simple. And again, are the computers all in the same room? Do you have ethernet cables to connect them to a central switch?

[QUOTE=chewgo;28862823]He was denied access to use the school's network to host it, it's probably fairly illegal to get access to it for this, especially after specifically being denied. Just a switch is pretty easy, you can easily manually assign IP addresses since you only have a few people coming. How many exactly? I've never done an ad-hoc, but if your computers are wireless-enabled, it should be cheaper than buying a switch. For statically assigning IP addresses, all you need to do is go into the control panel make one computer's IP address 192.168.1.1 with a subnet mask of 255.255.255.0, then the next computer 192.168.1.2 with a subnet mask of 255.255.255.0, and make sure no one has the same last digit as their IP address. It's really simple. And again, are the computers all in the same room? Do you have ethernet cables to connect them to a central switch?[/QUOTE] Sorry for the lack of understanding, but why wouldn't just a standard wireless home router work in this situation? If everyone connects to it, they are all put on a LAN and it does all the DHCP configuration automatically, no? If this is the case, OP, just borrow your home router, but I could be terribly mistaken. Someone will probably correct me...

[QUOTE=Trumple;28863080]Sorry for the lack of understanding, but why wouldn't just a standard wireless home router work in this situation? If everyone connects to it, they are all put on a LAN and it does all the DHCP configuration automatically, no? If this is the case, OP, just borrow your home router, but I could be terribly mistaken. Someone will probably correct me...[/QUOTE] This'd work just fine. All the machines would have to be equipped with wireless though, or be very few in numbers because most home routers don't have many switching ports.

You probably wont be able to play LoL, Starcraft 2 or most steam games for that matter. You really need to get some access to internet.

Just make sure everyone has steam installed with all the games you plan on playing run atleast once to properly configure drivers and other configurations that require a network connection. Once that's done then you should be able to run steam in offline mode and most of proper LAN games should work.

[QUOTE=nikomo;28849414]What phone?[/QUOTE] Galaxy S (Fascinate). Any Android phone with infrastructure tethering should work, ad-hoc might too. [QUOTE=hexpunK;28862030]And what about games that require Steam or some form on online validation? using that Android hotspot is not going to be cheap. [/QUOTE] It's a flat rate, but I don't use Verizon's app. I use an open-source, free one because I believe that if I pay for the data I should be able to do what I want with it.

[QUOTE=nikomo;28845788]I did. I wanted to test download speeds so I left it downloading some Linux distros with a Pentium 4 machine I have. Filled up the hard drive and still nothing. There's really not a lot of countries that cap bandwidth. The major ones are UK, US and I've heard Canada. I live in Finland.[/QUOTE] Neither Verizon nor Comcast cap bandwidth, and they're the most widely used across the US. I've yet to see an ISP around me that DOES cap bandwidth. Even the boonie "Metrocast Cable" up in the heartland of Maine doesn't.

I suggest you get a router or switch, if a switch then you'll be enabling DHCP on your PC - using one of the PCs that has wireless, connect to your phone. Then bridge the phones internet connection to the ethernet port and connect it to the switch or router in the "internet" port, have the other PCs connect to the router, don't do much surfing but it should be fine to validate Steam and SC2 and stuff.

[QUOTE=Satane;28870071]Not necessarily. I download/upload at least 100GB a month, no cap.[/QUOTE] WTF are you doing that you need all that trough your phone?

You can use the schools comps to LAN some games. Perferred would be Counter Strike 1.6, download and distribute the 60-70MB Decayed Lite edition. I LAN in my school all the time either in Business class or at the Library :P It's a lot of fun when 20 people are LAN-ing at the same time all around the school :P

[QUOTE=FFStudios;28868654]Neither Verizon nor Comcast cap bandwidth, and they're the most widely used across the US. I've yet to see an ISP around me that DOES cap bandwidth. Even the boonie "Metrocast Cable" up in the heartland of Maine doesn't.[/QUOTE] [quote]MetroCast Subscriber Account: MetroCast Access MetroCast High Speed Basic MetroCast High Speed MetroCast Gamer Monthly Bandwidth Usage Limit: 25 GB 100 GB 250 GB 350 GB[/quote] [url]http://www.metrocast.com/policy_HSI_AUP.cfm[/url] Only one I care to look for at the moment, I think you will find that the majority of ISP's do have bandwidth caps though. [editline]29th March 2011[/editline] Comcast has a 250GB a month cap. [url]http://customer.comcast.com/Pages/FAQViewer.aspx?Guid=ce29dfac-73d9-4cb4-b433-70abe3b295e6&fss=bandwidth#when[/url]