Online Lan Party - How It Works

[MaxFactor1]

So all of us if not most has an outrageous dsl connection now.. right... lots and lots of kudos to C&W... give credit where it is due... even though we could have gotten those speeds a long time ago...

So we have these crazy speeds and we either resort to music or images (prgs, games etc) or movies but what about the main thing... the one thing that makes us sane in the evenings and takes us to a different place....

ONLINE GAMING ANYONE???

I hate lan parties of late... cuz it is too hastling and when I get there; they be hosting some dumb ***** games and by the time you get caught up in a game, it is over... kaput.. finish.. so wadda ya do to have gaming for the whole weekend????

Simple... online lan gaming... ... what is max talking about...

Here it goes...

So alot of us have unreal tourny right - but you only can play it over lan right... cuz ya didn't buy it... me too...

Well we all know about VPN right... yep... but do we know how useful it really is???

Here is how my friends and I use to do it...

I setup a vpn connection on my machine and they just vpn to it... of course they would get a new ip address which is like 192.168.0.1 - 192.168.0.100... thats the scope I use...

TADA... you have yur own lan... where you can share files securely like you are all on a regular switch and play yur games...

I guess here is where the questions start to flood...

It might sound difficult but it is so easy from the user side... all they do is

create a new connection - next - select connect to the network at my workplace - next - select virtual private network connection - in the box you can put "online lan party" - next - it will now prompt you for the ip address which i will list on tech jamaica of course - next - finish

When you click on finish it will bring up a dial-up box like... where you enter username and password... normally I use "onlinelp" and "gamer12345"

It is like so simple... thats why I will be hosting the first TECH JAMAICA ONLINE LAN PARTY NEXT WEEK...

[matronyx]

So you have your OWN dedicated (not shared with brother) dsl connection right?
Ok....so when are you gonna test this? And with what game[s]?

[TwistedPair]

What games you thinking of, also how many players will you be able to host.

[BlaqMale]

i'm loading up my flak cannon as we speak, ready to rip you to shreds

[MaxFactor1]

Matronyx... "when am I going to test this"... huh... I have been doing this from I got dsl... these are stuff that I already tested and passed and got approved by bureau of standards... lmao.... I just wanted to introduce it to TECH JA...

Anyway... VPN is unlimited in winxp professional... so once you have dsl then yu kris... tomorrow I can do some trying out with you guys if thats what you mean...

[Nastrodamus]

Will link with Xphat to see if we can get the servers back up. The servers should still be there unused (if I am not mistaken), but we were waiting on a 'connection' to occur. Will do the check on that as well.

[leoandru]

But wouldn't such a connection LAG when you have multiple users connected to it? 1 mb is ok but its ur upload speed that may kill experience. Anyways its interesting and it is worth the try.

[Ropy]

How many of your friends normally connect to your server and what games will you host? I don't think 256Kbs is enough for graphics entensive games...

[MaxFactor1]

Does anybody know what TTL means...

Well it means Time To Live... And with networking if you get under 700 it is fair... We are all on the same domain which is C&W so our connections to each other will be even faster...

Ropy I am not only a PC specialist but a networking person as well...

A good TTL is any under 250ms;to prove that do a ping www.pcpitstop.com at command prompt and see what TTL you get for that site... I got like 242 and that is a webpage way across United States... later I will give you my ip address and you ping it and see what you get... I bet you will be surprised...

[leoandru]

the ttl (Time to Live) in a ping request or ip packet when received tells you how many more hops the packet can make before being discarded or returned. I has nothing to do with how fast a connection is. The ping time in milliseconds which was what you quoted tells you the latency of the connection so even if your upload speed was 64 K u will always get a low ping time if pinged for another pc on the same network. still 256 should be tested to determine the load it can handle. so don't assume.