MassiveLAN is Western New York's Largest BYOC (Bring your own Computer/Console) LAN Party Event, and invites you to celebrate 20 Years of MassiveLAN this summer! MassiveLAN is a 501.c3 LAN Party organization donating proceeds to charities located around the Western New York area, such as FeedMore WNY. What is MassiveLAN?

Hamburg Fairgrounds Event Center - 5820 South Park Ave, Hamburg NY 14075

June 28th 12:00PM - June 30th 03:00PM

Attendees and streamers come from far and wide to hang out and enjoy video games, board games, classic arcade games, and other fun mini-game activities, through a weekend long event filled with tournaments, casual play, and more! Players of all ages are welcome to attend, and MassiveLAN provides both a competitive, and casual atmosphere for all. MassiveLAN is an excellent place to explore something new, and to meet new game and technology enthusiasts!

Tickets are on sale now, and are available at https://www.massivelan.com/ along with additional event information. Tickets provide weekend-long access to the event, and for the BYOC ticket, will give you access to an end-of-event raffle!

To help support us with our charity fundraising, please donate via our DonorDrive. The funds raised in this donordrive go directly towards FeedMore WNY's Capital Campaign to build a new headquarters in Hamburg NY to service all 4 counties they operate in.

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Hey guys, me and my friends played terraria calamity on our yearly lan party for 2 years now and we want to switch some things up.
We are looking for a coop game with +30h of gameplay and good grinding, following games dont interesst us or we already played them online:
Ark
Valheim
Satisfactory
Raft
Rust
Palworld
Thanks for your suggestions!

Halo 2 LAN Party on Saturday, May 18th from 12-10PM at 1Up Video Games in Greenville, SC. Over 12 OG Xboxes, dozens of controllers for casual custom games and late afternoon tournaments. Live Stream & of course FREE Pizza!

Halo 2 Custom Games (All Ages): 12-6PM Halo 2 FFA Tournament: 6PM Halo 2 2v2 Tournament: 7:30PM $100 Prize Pool Bonus from Southeast Game Exchange 2024

$10 Venue Fee (Includes $10 Store Credit for 1Up Video Game's large selection of collectables.) -Tournament Pass: $10 per player (Entry into Free For All & 2v2 Tournaments, all goes to prize pool).

1Up Video Games 3398 Anderson Rd, Greenville, SC 29611 https://www.facebook.com/1upvideogamesgreenville

LIVE STREAM: https://youtube.com/@punny88

Halo Classic Hub Discord Server: https://discord.gg/haloclassichub

Southeast Game Exchange 2024: https://www.southeastgameexchange.com/

Tournament Settings:

• FFA Slayer & Team Slayer
• Kill Count: 50
• Battle Rifle Start
• SMG Secondary
• No Radar

FFA is Single Elimination (ie. 8 Players, top 4 advance) FFA Tournament results will be used to seed 2v2 Tournament. 2v2 is Double Elimination with each match is best 2 out of 3.

Payout & Prize Packs: -FFA Winner - Prize Pack -2v2 Tournament: Under 8 teams - 1st (70%), 2nd (30%) Over 8 teams - 1st (55%), 2nd (35%), 3rd (10%), 4th- Prize Pack

Remember me? The ^(idiot) that bought a domain totally overpriced?

A couple of weeks have passed and was working on the project behind the scenes. Finally I'm able to tell you that the website is finally online!

Of course it is still work in progress but at the moment I started to create a list of LAN-Party Eventlists, a possibility to buy an `@lan.party' E-Mail Adress or Subdomain as in addition an Discord Server.

After getting so much responses from you I needed to start and make a project out of this. So have a look and lets see what the future holds for us!

I haven't been to a lanparty in years and would love to go to one and expand my social circle. I'm a 45-year-old gamer and looking to get out of the house lol.

Also will I even need Ubuntu Server to assign IP through DHCP or will the router just take care of that? It was previously used a year ago when my department had a LAN party. Will I need it or will I just be able to run multiplayer games off of a switch and router combination?

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Equipment is as follows:

7 Lenovo ThinkCentre M700 PCs with nVidia Quadro K420 GPUs

Netgear ProSafe 8 Port Gigabit Switch

Netgear N600 Wireless Dual Band Router

Dedicated Ubuntu Server: Lenovo ThinkCentre M710q

As the title says, I'm a pretty big noob when it comes to this stuff, but here's all the details.

My friend who's getting married asked for me (groomsman) to host a lanparty for his bachelor. Currently we have 12 people scheduled to join. He requested the following games to be played:

Dota 2

Warcraft 3

and Halo 2 tourney (on xbox - we have 3 xboxs so isn't necessarily related to the lan issue)

My house is large enough to host, I'm just really stressing my internet won't be able to handle the load.

Here are my internet specs:

175mbps Download speed

EDIT: 15mbps Upload speed

Most people will be connecting via Wifi, and I have requested people to come with all games installed.

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You folks think we will have issues? / any other advice (first timer here)

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Thanks in advance :)

So I installed lancache and I had issues with hosting a static ip so I reserved a IP in my router page for my linux host machine. Now everytime I try to put that ip on my windows machines as preferred DNS and try to cache my steam library, it does caches at all and everytime I download the games from the steam servers instead of my cache server.

When i try doing nslookup steam.cache.lancache.net

It shows only

Non-authoritative answer: Name: steam.cache.lancache.net Address: 77.68.81.xyz

along with my router server name

but it doesn't show my lan cache ip address but when I disable ipv6 on my windows machine it shows but result is no different and when I try to add my ip address on the router's preferred dns page it shows the ip address again but it still doesn't caches my game downloads at all.

Any help will be appreciated, I have been stuck with this for the entire day but couldn't find a single fix or a proper answer on internet.

https://preview.redd.it/m60prwgwjftc1.jpg?width=1600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d8d1d8c9f36cd962f8be0412b85484d44559dfac

Last weekend we organized a 40H Lan Party inside our garden shed and it successfully came to an end. 4 Pallets Redbull, 2 Gösser crates, Coffee and water.

Games:
Golf with your friends, Rocket League, CS2, Minecraft, Motherload, Blobby Volley, Age of Empire 2, Satisfactory, League of Legends, Wii Sports, Wii Sports Ressorts, GTA5

Facts:
8 Players (peak)
Time Scoreboard for each player
Air conditioning
Down 300 Mbit / Up 200 Mbit Internet via radio relay
Unraid running:
Lancache on NVMe
Docker Server for Minecraft

Hi there My husband is turning 32 and as a fun thing I thought it would be fun to throw him a lan party with games he used to play in 2010. I want to include all the junk food that kids would eat such as Mountain Dew and Doritos and I want to have Halo 3. Is there anything else I can add that would make the party a success?

edit, everyone here is so creative, I’m surprised at all the great suggestions. Thank you for all these great ideas! I’ll make sure when it happens to post pics of some of y’all’s suggestions.

The party is set for May 11. I’m also thinking of doing some gifts bags and stuffing them with silly trinkets from the 2010’s, but I’m not sure what stuff boys would be interested in?

The guys and I have been lan-partying it lately, like we used to do in the 90's with Half-Life! It's quickly turning into a weekly thing. Downloads were really slowing us down with 6 people, so I decided to play around with lancache in my homelab.I got it running really well, but I just kept it up and after a few weeks I'm now seeing that the log files are over 20GB.So I'm wondering how to manage that and if lancache is even meant to be used full time.

On a side note, I suggest anyone that is running this to use a ZFS pool with compression. ZFS native compression is doing a really good job managing this type of data and saving a lot of capacity.

Hello all I was wondering if anyone has used the Zimaboard for lancache? I just recently ordered it as an easy setup Plex server. I was curious if anyone has setup a Zimaboard to do Plex and lancache or maybe steer me in a budget direction for lancache. As of now we have 3 PCs that all get updates from steam and it's the same few games. But I also wanna make reinstalls easier without the painful 15mb/s internet

6v6 mw2 on 360. Then switched to halo 2

Sorry to bother, I've been trying to set a lan party up for about an hour and a half. I feel like I'm missing something. Are there any youtube videos that explain how to setup well?

As part of a bachelor party coming up, we rented a decent AirBnB in Colorado with a pretty good rec room that would work out great for a LAN party. Problem is, we don't have the computers for it and we don't want the guys to lug their desktops onto airplanes just to participate.

We're looking for a reputable business that rents gaming PCs on a weekly basis. We don't need insane rigs, just something modern and decent with a 3070/4070 level card in it, that can play most modern multiplayer games at 1080p/60fps+. We'll probably do Helldivers 2, Division 2, sports games, probably Fortnite or other online games, strategy games like Civ 6, etc.

We all have Steam accounts with these games already purchased because we play online with each other all the time.

Ideally the place will ship us the boxes of PCs which we'll setup on our own, and then send back 5 days later.

We don't want to do something like Rent-A-Center because god knows what kind of trash computers they have which have been repossessed 50 times. We don't want to rent-to-own, we want to simply rent.

We also don't want to go "buy" a bunch of gaming computers from Walmart, which we will conveniently return in 6 days. We certainly can do that, it just feels kind of scummy.

Any ideas on services or companies that you've had good experiences with? Thanks!

As in the title, I plan to run 4 separate machines to cache content, is it possible with lancache?

One machine would be main machine in network one

The rest machines would be a machines in network two, three and wifi

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Is it possible to do that?

all "satellite" networks have separate IP addresses and main network is used to also host servers so no users there

I co-run a couple of small lan events and help facilitate a larger lan event in canada. The events are fairly successful with 20+ years of history behind them. However, I’m wondering what others are doing to obtain event sponsorship. What kinds of sponsorship packages are you offering and how are you engaging with prospect vendors?

FITES has been providing LANParty Events since 2001 with a solid track record of attendee and event growth. In 2001, our first event was held at Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania and brought in approximately 30 gamers.

We have gamers of all types and ages. Gamers are typically stereotyped by pale faced, long haired, grunge mongers, but as it turns out this stereotype couldn’t be farther from reality. Gamers come in all shapes and sizes, all classes, and with all types of personalities.

That being said..

We are less than 5 days out from FITES 2024! w00t!

We have acquired some amazing sponsors and they brought some sweet stuff that all attendees would be excited to leave with!

Also, FITES has announcement a vast array of tourneys to keep everyone interested! Some tourneys announced already are CS2, Rocket League 3v3, Overwatch 5v5, Wreckfest, Smash Bros. Melee, and of course the annual FITES MyStErY ToUrNeY!

Join us for over 50+ hours of non-stop LAN party! Raffles, Door Prizes/Swag, Trophies, and of course BAWLS to keep you energized!

TICKETS ARE STILL AVAILABLE! AND STILL ONLY $50! Head on over to The FITES Store

AND WE WILL SEE YOU NEXT WEEKEND FOR SOME OLD SCHOOL LAN PARTY FRAGGING AND FUN!

Wichita LANFest is back! April 20th-21st

Red Roof Inn and Conference Center, 6815 W Kellogg, Wichita, KS

Saturday the 20th, 10AM-3PM. $25 to enter. We're featuring a $1000 CS2 Tournamen (4 team, $250 buy-in) as well as other tournaments including Rocket League, Quake 3 Arena and more! Come join us for 30 hours of gaming. You'll also have a chance to win some awesome prizes from our sponsors.

Monitor rentals are available for $25 for the event.

https://www.tixr.com/groups/lanfest/events/wichita-lanfest-37-96982
https://linktr.ee/wichitalf

Lan gaming just isn't a huge thing anymore but I live in a po dunk village in a 3rd world where they don't have these things period. I'm building a place that will have a small offline lan gaming zone, maybe up to 8 consoles. I'll have the consoles built in to a wall with the TV's mounted above and the joys on a hard line but I'm stuck on which consoles to use.

The 360 seems like the last real LAN machine built. The WII U I hear is good as well but I've never used one and don't know much about the dock system they use, I wouldn't want kids to have those in hand.

Open to any ideas and input.

Hi,

I'm running a lancache server on an ubuntu virtual machine within Proxmox. I added 2 new interfaces, and restarted my Lancache server to reflect these changes, but afterwards the monolithic component of the docker-compose is stuck in a reboot loop.

This is where the error occurs:

# Finished including /etc/nginx/nginx.conf
Checking nginx config
nginx: [emerg] invalid keys zone size "keys_zone=generic:1g" in /etc/nginx/conf.d/20_proxy_cache_path.conf:1
nginx: configuration file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf test failed
ERROR: hook /hooks/supervisord-pre.d/99_config_check.sh} returned a non-zero exit status '0'

This is the current .env file contents:

## See the "Settings" section in README.md for more details
## Set this to true if you're using a load balancer, or set it to false if you're using seperate IPs for each service.
## If you're using monolithic (the default), leave this set to true
USE_GENERIC_CACHE=true
## IP addresses that the lancache monolithic instance is reachable on
## Specify one or more IPs, space separated - these will be used when resolving DNS hostnames through lancachenet-dns. Multiple IPs can improve cache priming performance for some services (e.g. Steam)
## Note: This setting only affects DNS, monolithic and sniproxy will still bind to all IPs by default
LANCACHE_IP=10.10.10.4 10.10.99.4 10.10.50.230
## IP address on the host that the DNS server should bind to
DNS_BIND_IP=10.10.10.4
## DNS Resolution for forwarded DNS lookups
UPSTREAM_DNS=1.1.1.1; 1.0.0.1
## Storage path for the cached data
## Note that by default, this will be a folder relative to the docker-compose.yml file
CACHE_ROOT=/lancache
## Change this to customise the size of the disk cache (default 2000g)
## If you have more storage, you'll likely want to increase this
## The cache server will prune content on a least-recently-used basis if it
## starts approaching this limit.
## Set this to a little bit less than your actual available space
CACHE_DISK_SIZE=5400g
## Change this to allow sufficient index memory for the nginx cache manager (default 500m)
## We recommend 250m of index memory per 1TB of CACHE_DISK_SIZE
CACHE_INDEX_SIZE=1g
## Change this to limit the maximum age of cached content (default 3650d)
CACHE_MAX_AGE=365d
## Set the timezone for the docker containers, useful for correct timestamps on logs (default Europe/London)
## Formatted as tz database names. Example: Europe/Oslo or America/Los_Angeles
TZ=Europe/Copenhagen

The two new interfaces are setup to get a static IP over DHCP.

Does anyone know how to fix this?

I will doing the networking for this years lanparty hosted at Momocon in May 2024 Atlanta GA. It will run 4 days long including overnight.

This is in partnership between LANFest and SKULLZ.
https://www.momocon.com/lan-pc/