You spend hours setting up, cables everywhere, snacks in reach, and the perfect game ready to go... then someone shows up without their power cord. It’s like they thought the laptop ran on hope and wifi. Welcome to the club, buddy, but I’m pretty sure your charger has to be plugged in to work. Anyone got a spare?

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NETWAR 45.0 - 708 Person BYOC LAN Party - Omaha, Nebraska - March 14-15, 2025

More information & Tickets @ https://www.netwar.org/event-details/

Hello Chaps. Looking for some ideas for 8 player Coop games for a LAN I'm hosting next week. We could of course run x2 L4D2 games or the like, but would be nice to have something we could all have a bash at in one session. Factorio / Satisfactory would be nice too but I think would take too long.

Hello guys, Lately I have been quit tired of using pterodactyl to manage my CS2 servers on docker. This panel has some limitations and is very unstable when you have a high load during events. So I was wondering switching to k8s, I mean I have already setup everything from scratch (dns, cache, rancher for cluster management). But I didn’t found anything related to cs2 on kube, no good images and configuration. Do you guys have any feedbacks ? Thx 🫡

Halo 3, Timesplitters 2, Tekken 6. There are 4 more consoles not pictured😅

Hi everyone! In 2025 OnLAN is expanding out of Norway and we want to cover as much of Europe as possible! OnLAN is a hybrid-LAN where the concept is several smaller LAN parties that are spread around the world that are connected through online competitions, social platforms and live streams. If anyone has suggestions to how we can make this event as great as possible we would love to hear it!

PS:
If you would like to be part of organizing the event you can register on this google form: https://forms.gle/JqXXF8Fk7urBiGnc7

First LAN party in my new place coming up on Sat, just four people playing but it's a start and hoping to grow a scene over the next year until there's a enough of a pool of cool people to reliably have 6-8 people every month or so.

Anyway, in another room in basement is my network rack which includes an UnRAID server with a Ryzen 9 3950X and 64GB of RAM. That's a lot of compute available. So if we'll be doing some Valve stuff like L4D2, would it be worth setting up a L4D2 dedicated server for the four of us to play or just rely on Valve's P2P system?

Some stuff, like CS2, it obviously wouldn't since at this player count we'd just need to go out and play other players online. I was planning to set up some other dedicated servers for sure like UT2004 and such but something like L4D2 has me unsure if it's worth the effort.

Hello I came here for advice, in my college we want to do a small LAN party (20/30 people aprox), but most people has latptops without anEthernet port so I was wondering how viable would be to use a Rpi 3 that we have as a Router so everyone can connect correctly. The game would be a simple vanilla minecraft server.

I have seen some articles that explain how to do it but my main concern is if it would cause hight latency and/or connection errors and whether it would just be better to buy a cheap router in an electronics store.

Thanks in advance!

PD: The minecraft server would run in a pc that would be connected to the Rpi with an ethernet cable

When i say LAN party i mean games playable together online that are fun when sitting near each other in a sort of lan party kind of style.

Please suggest games that are either free to play or on Xbox game pass ultimate, both co-op games and pvp are good but for pvp would prefer things that are easy to play.

Older games that have a couch multiplayer feel (not actually local multiplayer) are also appreciated, eg older halo games.

i have a question, where do you guys find lan parties? are you using discord to find them? does anybody in this reddit host lan party in the chicago area?

Hello, I will be hosting a LAN-Party for my student organization, however, the location that we have has NO internet whatsoever. Now, I have seen things like `LanCache . net` and `steamcache-dns`, but it seems that they still need internet for the steam client in order to start the download (if I understood it right). Now, I don't know what the best way to handle the case that someone did not download a game that they end up wanting to play (assuming I think of downloading that game). Any help or feedback is helpful!
Thanks in advance everyone!

So i followed this Tutorial and even did what "PaulBag4" has done in its reddit Post and still I get a other IP Address from nslookup rather than my caching server. But if I try to use the dns on a vm in proxmox and do nslookup there too it returns my caching server to me. Could it be that Windows does not accept the DNS or something like that?

I'll go stay to a relative in February for my studies, I'd like to bring my setup with me, both for entertainment and school work. (Photography & audio-visual multimedia techniques)
I'll be there for 5 months.

I was thinking on bringing the bare minimum:

• PC

• Monitor

• Keyboard & Mouse

• Mixer & Mic-MicArm

But I figured: "I should ask around, maybe someone has some black-magic trick for moving setups around."

I never attended a LAN-party, Never moved my computer further than my garden for dusting.

So I'm here, hoping for a moving-setup-veteran to come to my rescue BEFORE, I f*ck it up.

This is my current setup

And here's what I was thinking about bringing with me.

I met someone last year who normally hosts Xbox 360 LAN's, he has about 16 of them that are modded so he brought his group of friends and I invited people for PC gaming.

This was the result.

Overall had about 20+ people at the event.

I'm actually hosting another this coming Saturday with just PC's and we should have at least 15 people coming.

We created a promo video for Enclave which shows the venue that we be hosting the event!

https://youtu.be/0UEPiTpJwLI

Below Zero, a gaming community and proud chapter of LANFest, a nonprofit dedicated building healthy communities through gaming!

We bring gamers together to connect, compete, and have fun while supporting meaningful causes. For us, gaming is more than play—it’s a way to make a difference.

January 24-26
Location: Gamezenter, Roseville, MN

Get ready for 3 days of gaming fun! Bring your setup, connect with fellow gamers, and enjoy the camaraderie.

What’s in store:

• Tournaments with medals for CS2, Golf with your Friends, Smash
• Raffle prizes included with your event ticket
• Awesome giveaways ranging from PC cases to Intel processors

Grab your tickets here: https://tixr.com/groups/lanfest/bzv7

Not ready to commit? No problem! Stop by and check out the action in person.

Have questions or want to stay connected? Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/belowzerolanfest

We hope to see you there!

There is always something for everyone at EPIC.LAN!

Competitive esports tournaments from some of the biggest titles right now:
-Counter-Strike 2
-VALORANT
-StarCraft II
-osu!

With EPIC43 (Oct 2024) resulting to 44 teams in just the CS2 tournament, and over 120 teams competing all together, we are expecting big things for this upcoming event in February.

Prize pools for esports are up to £5000!!

However, if competitive esports is not your cup of tea, we also run lots of activities to keep our casual gamers entertained:

-Intel Community Championship
-The famous Kettering Pub Quiz
-Partner stands to interact with and test new products
-Stage shows
-Retro Consoles
-Dance Dance Revolution
-Party Night
-Karaoke
-Beer Pong tournaments

Just take a look at our 60 second highlight video from our last event: https://x.com/EPICLAN/status/1868343575999553935

Moved from Toronto to Ottawa at the end of this summer, which came with the blessing of being able to afford far more space and that includes a finished basement. A finished basement which has been decked out with desks, 10gbps and 2.5gbps LAN drops, and network rack on the other side of the wall for network services, 238TB of storage and even 'LANCache' running in a docker. The dream is find large of group of people to do some semi frequent LAN party gaming comprising mostly of tired ass millennials like myself who want to play Left 4 Dead, Unreal Tournament 2004, Quake 3 and what have you.

I used to live here over a decade ago but left for Toronto, still have some friends here since coming back but finding enough to even do 4 players for Left 4 Dead is a bit of an hill battle. We're adults with jobs and obligations and all that. So here I am trying to expand that reach and see how it goes.

There's some FreeSync monitors that could even be 'loaned out' if anyone can only bring a 'tower' and even a few extras PCs that can be setup if someone can bring nothing. (You would need access to your own Steam Account though) Yes, I do own a FEW too many computers, ask me about my Amiga 2000HD. :P

Anyway, the core idea is a chill weekend afternoon/evening of games just played for fun. Nothing like modern online gaming lobbies where you risk accounting raged out minors showing every curse word they've learned because you 'don't know the meta' or what have. I think the best way to put it is 'More like a night out bowling; So long as there's good people, nachos, a pinball machine, maybe a few drinks and you could throw gutter balls all night and it's still a great time'.

Feel free to asks questions or directly message I guess. This is obviously not a blank open invite, but I wanna see who's interested and how the 'vibes' are.

There’s no panic quite like the moment the Wi-Fi dies at a LAN party. Suddenly, we’re all back in the Dark Ages, sweating over cables like cavemen. Meanwhile, your one friend who’s "just here for the snacks" asks if we can "just play cards." No Karen, we're not playing cards!

I have fiber 300/300 up and down internet and want to host a LaN party. The game we will be playing, Marvel rivals, doesn't support local play so we will have to do private matches through their online server. Would this be enough speed for 12 players? Xbox and PC

Hello there, remember me?

For weeks I’m working the new website of https://lan.party which will now include an event list after some people wrote me that in the USA no global list is available anymore.

Since everything is self written I would like some beta testers for the website, searching for bugs, giving opinions about design decision and so on.

So if you want to help me, just contact me 😊