LAN Packing List & Instructions

GhostMjr · April 15, 2018, 10:45:23 AM

[FONT=&]Checklist[/FONT][FONT=&]

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[FONT=&]1. [/FONT][FONT=&]Sign up for your Thursday night grub [/FONT][FONT=&]HERE[/FONT][FONT=&].[/FONT]
[FONT=&]2. [/FONT][FONT=&]Sign up for your Friday night grub [/FONT][FONT=&]HERE[/FONT][FONT=&].[/FONT]
[FONT=&]3. [/FONT][FONT=&]If you fancy any large Dominos for a tenner on Saturday night, click [/FONT][FONT=&]HERE[/FONT][FONT=&].[/FONT]
[FONT=&]4. [/FONT][FONT=&]Read through the HARDWARE and GAMES LIST below.[/FONT]
[FONT=&]5. [/FONT][FONT=&]Travel safe and get to the LAN! Your seat will have your gaming name on it. Get yourself set up (for the early Thursday arrivals please wait until we have given you the OK to go into the room).[/FONT]
[FONT=&]6. [/FONT][FONT=&]Game and buy GhostMjr and Gortex all of their beers.[/FONT]
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[/FONT][FONT=&]Hardware[/FONT][FONT=&]

PC and Monitor - 1 only. Don't forget your power cables!
Keyboard, Mouse, Mousepad.
Joystick, Xbox Controller, etc.
Headphones - no speakers!
Duct tape - to tape your cables down!
Ethernet Cable - Cat6
Extension cord, preferably a 4-way ([/FONT][FONT=&]:norty:[/FONT][FONT=&]) and surge protected.[/FONT][FONT=&]
Money - how else will you buy us beer? [/FONT][FONT=&][/FONT][FONT=&]

There is a bar 10 yards from the LAN room, and a highstreet (with a fine Kebab establishment) 20 yards away.

The hotel gives us a heavily discounted rate on our rooms, and gives us the LAN room for FREE. Please respect the arrangement we have had with them for many years and the relationship we have built. [/FONT][FONT=&]Do not[/FONT][FONT=&] bring in alcohol from outside. There is a bar for that. Snacks and the odd salted seahorse latte from Costa are generally ok, but please bring such things in discretely (i.e. through the door leading directly to the LAN room, not via the public bar), and don't take the proverbial.[/FONT][FONT=&]

[/FONT][FONT=&]Games List[/FONT][FONT=&]

Team Fortress 2[/FONT]
[FONT=&]Cod4:Modern Warfare
[/FONT][FONT=&]Unreal Tournament.[/FONT][FONT=&] We will be having a bash of this Friday night. It is FREE, give it a go![/FONT][FONT=&]
Counter Strike: Global Offensive for the Saturday tournaments.
Overwatch for the Saturday tournaments.

As most of you will know although these are the games we are running (sort of) structured events for, many others will be played at the LAN. Bring along whatever you fancy!

It is a good idea to run Steam/Epic Launcher/ Blizzard Launcher the night before the LAN to make sure you are up to date. There should be working internet at the event, but it is better not to have to rely on it for your 30gb update Friday morning.

Full itinerary can be found [/FONT][FONT=&]HERE[/FONT][FONT=&].[/FONT][FONT=&]

See you soon![/FONT]

TheDvEight · April 30, 2018, 12:00:01 AM

I can't remember if my ethernet cable is cat 5 or cat 6, will it matter if it is cat5

Chaosphere · April 30, 2018, 03:01:29 AM

We moved the network to cat6 a while back to try to improve the network.

CSL - 3m - CAT.6 Ethernet Gigabit Lan network cable (RJ45) | 10/100/1000Mbit/s | Patch cable | UTP | compatible with CAT.5 / CAT.5e / CAT.7 | Switch/Router/Modem/Patch panel / Access Point / patch fields | black

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00J4FSDEM/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_YIN5AbZFCV4S3

Cheap as chips

TheDvEight · April 30, 2018, 06:09:59 AM

Yeah I must have cat5 then don't think the Mrs will be happy with more cables in the house, anyone got one spare I could use:D

Chaosphere · April 30, 2018, 08:57:10 AM

You could always throw away the old one? :roflmao:

Gortex · April 30, 2018, 10:32:51 AM

I can get 3, 4 or 5 meter cat6 from work np. What colour would you like? Yellow, blue, green, orange or grey.

Might get a few as spare.

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no peanuts · April 30, 2018, 11:22:47 AM

Quote from: Gortex;430991I can get 3, 4 or 5 meter cat6 from work np. What colour would you like? Yellow, blue, green, orange or grey.

pink is the way to go.

Penfold · April 30, 2018, 12:32:11 PM

Quote from: Gortex;430991I can get 3, 4 or 5 meter cat6 from work np. What colour would you like? Yellow, blue, green, orange or grey.

Might get a few as spare.

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That would be useful. I know we have some in the box but also some that are broken.

Have we checked them recently? I know we had some duds. Perhaps if someone has a cable tester they could bring it.

I, also, can't find my cat 6 cable so if you are able to get one a 3 metre green one would be great.

smilodon · April 30, 2018, 01:09:04 PM

Microsoft seem to have become aware of the dMw LAN.

As we're not an Xbox gaming community they clearly hate us, and are trying to sabotage our event by postponing their next big update until today.

It might be an idea to either make sure you get your Spring Creators Update before Thursday morning or postpone it till you get home on Sunday.

Just a thought.

Gortex · April 30, 2018, 02:43:56 PM

Quote from: no peanuts;430993pink is the way to go.

Sadly no Pink for you as apparently that is not a recognized IBM standard. TBH I think they are a bit prejudiced to the color :doh:

ok got a nice collection of different colored 4m Cat7 patch leads for peeps to use.

I will also bring my copper modtap tester but this device just tells us if it does or does not work and not how well the cable is working.

TheDvEight · April 30, 2018, 03:22:43 PM

Any colour thanks gortex remind me to buy you a pint

TheDvEight · May 02, 2018, 07:47:37 PM

Thought I'd give this a "bump" as a reminder to myself/all as there is a few lan threads and can be a bit confusing (for me anyway) RE: Instructions for updates.

GhostMjr · May 03, 2018, 03:26:50 PM

Guys a 10gb PUBG update was released last night. Please update your pc's before you attend the LAN to save on the bandwidth. Thanks.