 So, I've been involved to create a LAN-event for kids in a few month. So I need to hear stories from you about similar events that you where involved in, and the pitfalls I have to look out for. Basically, we will arrange a LAN-party for kids and their parents, and we expect 100-150 people attending and bringing their own machines + some consoles. I am looking into building a router (opnSense) and buy some cheap mikrotik switches. 10Gbit core-networking, to each table, and then distribute... 14 comments
@selea one heard of https://github.com/kixelated/steamcache being used before! Also, unrelated, dot some HEPA air filters around the place, reduced viral blah much appreciated by everyone yeah, I think the project got stalled so someone forked it: I just need some fast drives :P  @selea @kirrus If I was going to be hosting a LAN, I'd be asking the advice of Jon Winkle (https://twitter.com/jon_winkle) (Sorry for birdsite link). One of his team (https://twitter.com/MintopiaUK) is actually one of the lead devs on LanCache π @solarisfire @kirrus @mintopia Wonderful!  @selea sounds like a good plan yea. Just setup some rules so that a single person can't take all the bandwidth. I wonder if torrenting will be an issue when it is kids 6-13 years old lol @selea definitely will need a cache server for the games but setting that up might be a pain as it's gonna need to be done client side as well I think (might be wrong there) The internet connection is going to be the biggest bottleneck by far i think, might be worth putting bandwidth limiting on so everyone can at least have something rather than a few people managing to use it all  @selea Make sure you get the power distribution rightβ¦ gaming PCs get beefier and beefier these days, 1000 watts per machine is no longer rare with the recent nvidia graphics cards and Intel processors. |
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... the network from a 24 port eth switch to the clients.
I am also thinking about a LAN-cache server in order to cache all the games that is downloading.
Sounds like a good plan right? Let me know!
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