LAN Items Not to Forget! "Gamers"
Sledgehammer70
California Icrontian
Every year at any LAN you get a few guys who just for get to bring the right things to the LAN... here is a easy check list to help you remember some of the key items to bring to the LAN.
The Basic’s
1.) Your PC or Notebook
2.) Monitor "notebooks don't apply"
3.) Keyboard "notebooks don't apply"
4.) Mouse "notebooks apply unless you have mad micro with the touch pad"
5.) Power strip
6.) Ethernet Cable "15ft-25' ft
7.) Headphones "please leave the 5.1 surround sound system at home"
Things you can bring for everyone to use:
1.) Hub or a switch!!!! "These are needed in the worst way all the time"
2.) Extension cords
3.) Extra Ethernet cables
4.) drinks
and junk food "If you share, I share, and we all benefit "
The Basic’s
1.) Your PC or Notebook
2.) Monitor "notebooks don't apply"
3.) Keyboard "notebooks don't apply"
4.) Mouse "notebooks apply unless you have mad micro with the touch pad"
5.) Power strip
6.) Ethernet Cable "15ft-25' ft
7.) Headphones "please leave the 5.1 surround sound system at home"
Things you can bring for everyone to use:
1.) Hub or a switch!!!! "These are needed in the worst way all the time"
2.) Extension cords
3.) Extra Ethernet cables
4.) drinks
and junk food "If you share, I share, and we all benefit " 0
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In 05 we had serious lan issues, because my router was not made for that kind of traffic. In 06 I upgraded to a p4 1.8ghz + 512mb of ram custom-built smoothwall with enterprise NICs and that worked well.
Good thread, Sledge.
I love smoothwall. I keep buying cheap computers for it, so they keep dying. Which is frustrating, but I'll gladly replace it with another crap computer to get smoothwall running again. From the time the thing is powered on and setup to the time the computers end up dying, I never have to reboot the thing, and it never barfs on anything. Smoothwall is amazing.
good thread/info sledge!
How about a dozen of em, and a few hundo feet of cable? + a few ends and a crimp, of course...? I've been holding off throwing them away...
If you bring extra cable, you will be my hero - I'm not going to have room in my luggage to bring a 50-ft LAN cable this year because I'm packing for two trips at once this year...
also having a hub per table will allow everyone and beyond to hook up... I had a 5' and 25' cable last year and I only used the 5' cable.
Do not bring ANYTHING but a 50' (Or bigger) LAN cable.
No, it isn't. You haven't been to three LANs. It's been standard gear at the last three, and it's better to be prepared for anything than for a situation that may not work out alright.
Go troll someone else's thread with misinformation.
And use them as whips!!!!
Now with the setup of the tent, you do not need a 50' cable. The tent isn't even 50ft long, and with Hub's and switches being brought to the events for each table that cuts down the need for a overly long cable...
Also TT already said he has 100's of feet of cable to drag out from the house to the tent, hence we don't need multiple runs from the house.
Now in all my years a 15' to 25' cable has been good enough, and with the planning Q and I are doing and have done we shall be fine with those lengths.
So if you want bring A 2000' cable as suit yourself, but for the others 15' should be just fine...
So how about you stop thread crapping MY Thread and go play with a Wii or something...
Excellent!:headbange Yeah, last year the cords were wrapped around my neck when I woke up in the mornings, in my turtle shell.