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Multiplayer gaming at its finest! This group is specifically designed for LAN party discussion of all kinds: PC gamers who want to start hosting their own LAN parties or are trying to find gaming groups and clubs in their area! Feel free to post hosting tips and event announcements and any other helpful info regarding LAN gaming.

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Event Submission Guidelines

Please submit a SELF POST the with following tags to be properly distinguished!

  • [EVENT] = LAN Party event
  • [EVENT] [GROUP] = Replace GROUP with your event group, should your event be in one.

Example:

  • [EVENT] [LANFEST] Event starting in June!

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/r/lanparty

11,067 Subscribers

14 Comments
2024/12/05
00:21 UTC

65

Lan Party House

https://lanparty.house

Dropping this here, I just saw this and it's awesome

12 Comments
2024/11/28
21:24 UTC

4

Lets talk power...

I run and participate in a couple of LAN events in Alberta, Canada. Both the events have custom made power solutions. One of them (500 participants) has 3 phase feeder cables that plug into custom made breaker panels that are on rolling dollies, the other one (40 participants) has a couple of plywood boards with sub-panels that wire up to a pair of oven outlets at the venue they use to power at least 4 rows of systems.

What are yall doing for power at your venue's?

7 Comments
2024/11/28
01:14 UTC

25

Meme I made years ago

8 Comments
2024/11/27
21:58 UTC

8

Multiple use room for Lan party

In a new building we might have space for a multiple use room.

Somethinf for winetastings, small gatherings, workshops, meetings, movie watching and last but not least private lan parties.

I have organised multiple lan parties over the years, so i have a good understanding in whats needed, but to brainstorm i would like to get some input in what you would love to see in a lan-party space if you were going to rent a place for you and your buddies.

It will be in a bussiness area, so things like jacuzzi or sauna is probably not what will fit in.

Some things i might want. A small lounge with tv and decent audio A VR area Showers Bunkbeds Kitchen BBQ ...

TLDR: What things would you like to see in a dedicated space for small lanparties (20 people)

7 Comments
2024/11/26
16:09 UTC

13

Free non steam games for a lan party of 5?

Hi, I'm holding a small lan party soon and I want to have some suggestions on fps and racing games that'll run on low end hardware (oldest PC at the event will be a laptop with an AMD Athlon 2 dual core M300, with integrated graphics, and windows 7, so I'd like to stick to games from 1999-2008ish). Some other things to note: 1. The newest PC will have windows 11 installed (so that might conflict with some older titles 2. No steam, as it doesn't support windows 7 anymore (thanks a lot valve) 3. I'd like to stick to free games, or demos of games, as I don't want to spend any cash or pirate for this event. 4. The game should support 5 players of play. The games that I have decided upon so far are quake 3 arena demo, BMW M3 challenge, unreal tournament, and Warsow. Thank you for your time!

14 Comments
2024/11/26
01:57 UTC

44

Will this work for a small LAN party?

Hello looking to host a small LAN Party with me and 3 mates (I have never hosted one before) I found this switch and wondering if this will work to supply internet to 4 computers TP-Link TL-SG105 it’s got 4 Ethernet ports for the computers and then will the 5 one connect it to the rougher?

10 Comments
2024/11/24
18:39 UTC

13

LAN GAME mini review - Galaxy Burger

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2749770/Galaxy_Burger/

Supports up to 8 players.

Steam version is DRM-free and portable and has proper LAN support.

The games based around using your cursor to prep and assemble burgers/fries. The game gradually adds more shit, more ingredients, larger grills, more simultaneous customers. Its good!

Multiplayer implementation is dead simple, just adds cursors for each player to interact with everything. Might be the perfect casual game to fill in the gap for something more involved. But also means the game doesnt appear to scale at all for numerous players, so the initial levels/modes will not be fun for more than a couple players.

2 Comments
2024/11/18
19:42 UTC

3

Looking for a sponsorship for a club event in Amberg (Germany).

Hi, is there anyone who knows of a sponsor for club events? From goodie bags, hotels, alcohol brands ... I wrote to a few places but I'm not German I can only speak English unfortunately at the moment. I Would appreciate your advice and support.

1 Comment
2024/11/18
05:29 UTC

6

We take our game to the largest LAN in the north west! Part 1

0 Comments
2024/11/16
23:12 UTC

12

Tips for Lan Party games?

Anyone have any good tios for Lan games, will go to one next week and we are thinking about games to play. Dont matter how new or old it is. The more players the better, might be up to 10 people

18 Comments
2024/11/16
13:21 UTC

5

Lancache or something similar for college labs

2 Comments
2024/11/16
06:24 UTC

6

11 person lan party Ethernet box

https://a.co/d/gXvLYFw Hey! Running my first lan party, would something like this be enough for 11 people to connect to internet? Thanks!!

7 Comments
2024/11/15
05:44 UTC

3

How to Update my cache Domain List for getting better traffic?

Hi folks,

I'm using the github uklans domain list below in my cache. However, based on the traffic, I still see HTTP traffic going to Akamai with domains like the examples below (ex: ps5 games). How can I review and update my domain list? Or is it better to wait for the GitHub domain list to be updated?

I came across these domains in the outgoing HTTP traffic;

  • e259803.b.akamaiedge.net
  • e40436.api8.akamaiedge.net

GitHub Cache Domains List

Thanks....

0 Comments
2024/11/14
22:14 UTC

29

Did a classic Lan last Year playing Worms and COD1

6 Comments
2024/11/13
13:23 UTC

10

Retro Lan party

Hello,

I am setting up a Lan Party for 10 -12 people, on windows 10, 11 i have he set the network on 192.168.0.0/24 for all the devices, people are going to bring their own PCs/laptops and i was wondering:

  1. If i could have preinstalled the games and share them through the network so we wont have to install them on each device?

  2. But i am thinking that we might have problems with some of this games like Lotr btme 1,2/RWK since i have only one original cd key ( game wont allow to play on multiple devices with the same cd key),

Any recommendations or guides on how i can achieve this?

11 Comments
2024/11/12
13:02 UTC

48

Annual LAN :)

Had my annual LAN party this past weekend. I meant to take more pictures (I stole this one from my buddy). I’ve been throwing LANs since 2010 in high school - all through out college. Sometimes it was 3-4 times a year.

Since we’ve all grown up, we only do it annually in conjunction with Extra Life. I hope to have a separate room in my future home just for LAN parties. My buddy lent me his house to host this years :)

0 Comments
2024/11/12
04:21 UTC

26

Not the classic kind of LAN, a mostly gaming handheld WLAN party

I grew up doing mostly Xbox/360 lan parties, where I was the network nerd who got stuff set up. Even made my own crossover cable in my networking class.

It’s been ages but I found some coworker friends who also enjoyed LAN parties and we made a LAN party in spirit. This was only half the setup, didn’t take a picture of the other table

Games we played: StarCraft Tribes Revengence Halo 2

Devices I had set up for this: Aya neo flip DS Lenovo legion go Aya neo AM01 mini pc Minisforum mini pc Minisforum V3 2 in 1 Aya Neo 2S Steam deck One X player X1

0 Comments
2024/11/10
13:56 UTC

6

SX29

We are finishing preparations for our next event. Sund-Xplosion 29.

Mid sized lanparty in Stralsund (Germany)

More Info under https://sxlan.de

We still have seats to offer.

2 Comments
2024/11/10
08:13 UTC

5

Lancache on primary gaming rig?

Brand new to this - does lancache have to run exclusively on a dedicated machine/VM where the cache files exist solely for distribution, or can it be installed on a 'primary' Windows gaming rig (via a VM) and the lancache copy of the games is also the copy used by the Windows Gaming Rig? Or does the main gaming rig always need to be a separate copy of the game than that within the lancache? I hope that makes sense.

Trying to avoid the lancache copy of the game files being an additional copy on top of the ones on my other gaming rigs, of course because of storage concerns.

My use-case is having 3-4 gaming rigs (a laptop, a handheld and 2 desktops) and am wondering if the lancache files can directly be the game files used by one of the main desktops - or do the lancache files solely exist for distribution and can't be used themselves for gaming from.

Thanks!

4 Comments
2024/11/10
06:59 UTC

87

Successful Test LAN!

Hosted a test lan party with 7 of us ahead of our larger 20+ man lan in February! CoDBO6, BF2042, and Halo Infinite custom maps getting lots of love today.

4 Comments
2024/11/10
03:17 UTC

4

Future Lan Party, need advice!

Hi r/lanparty!

New to the community and definitely rusty on my LAN knowledge.

TLDR: having a LAN party for about 30 friends, want advice!

I'm turning 30 next fall and I've sent out a message to a bunch of buddies from various life phases to have a massive LAN party. Most are married, have kids, and live in different states so we started planning early to accomodate travel and work schedules. Looking at anywhere between 20-30 dudes, ages 26-33 and all gamers at some point in their lives.

Currently, the plan is console only LAN. Probably looking at up to 8 XBOX 360's playing Halo 2, Halo 3, maybe a few copies of MW2 or BO for zombies. 2 Switches for Mario Kart and Smash lobbies, a Gamecube for SSBM purists. One xbox for rockband / guitar hero and its instruments.

I'm reading through forums and getting inspiration from other posts, but would love any and all advice / guidance about how to set all of this up, misc components I might need (besides the obvious X number consoles and X game copies), or anything else that would help this go as smoothly as possible so we're not just waiting the whole night for updates or don't have the right hardware to connect. I did a few LAN's back in the day (15+ years ago) but not to this scale. I've already collected 3 xbox 360's off of FB marketplace.

Also, food and maybe other game suggestions?

I will post pictures of it all of course once the event is over!

4 Comments
2024/11/09
18:23 UTC

16

VulkanLAN the biggest LAN-Party in Austria

https://preview.redd.it/tyidba5fbyyd1.jpg?width=809&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=61b4aab6680782bf8ac830be4ea3f2274e035325

in 2023 VulkanLAN set the all time record for LAN-Party's in Austria with 925 particapants and in this year 2024 VulkanLAN set the all time record in Austria with 1192 participants.

11 Comments
2024/11/04
21:28 UTC

13

Old friends with PC planing LAN Party. Maybe 6 People want to play. maybe more. What to play?

There will be a internet connection but we planning playing like 20 years ago. Connect pc via switch and have fun. We are all on pcs. Say, what games we should play? And the games should run on modern machines.

19 Comments
2024/11/02
21:24 UTC

118

LAN Party with friends - Regional Australia

18 Comments
2024/11/02
06:20 UTC

2

Custom db file for lan cache dns

Hi guys, I have run in to a problem with Linux hosts in a lan setup with a lancache.

I have done the usual checks, seeing that lancache.steamcontent.com resolves to the local cache ip. The cache also looks to be working well with windows hosts. Searching for answers I found another steam user who mentioned that the Linux steam client seem to use a url (cache1-atl3.steamcontent.com) not being intercepted by the lancache dns.

I was thinking I could manually add the domain to the custom db.

Does any have a file that I could easily modify to link in the docker image?

7 Comments
2024/11/01
18:47 UTC

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