I dunno what it was like for everyone else but it always felt like 90% of my time during these was trying to sort out compatability issues and so we’d end up just pissing around. Still great fun that I look back fondly on though!
Yeah, same when we were still using those old style cables, the one where you have the T plugs to put everyone on the line. Once we switched to the newer cables it went better.
For our LAN parties we would always help our fellow players carry their stuff and set everything up. Except for monitors. Everyone carries their own. You want to be fancy with 19 inches? Sure, but you carry that yourself!
Me heaving my 17 inch CRT computer monitor into the car to go play games via
localLAN all night at my friends.I dunno what it was like for everyone else but it always felt like 90% of my time during these was trying to sort out compatability issues and so we’d end up just pissing around. Still great fun that I look back fondly on though!
Two days of installing and bug fixing, half a day of gaming.
If you did it with the same friends more often, you got into the groove and everyone had the correct crossover cables, and the setup memorised.
But there Was always that one guy that never got it running.
Yeah, same when we were still using those old style cables, the one where you have the T plugs to put everyone on the line. Once we switched to the newer cables it went better.
Good ol local local area network
Gonna use my PIN number to get a bit of cash from the ATM machine.
It’s ‘Local area LAN network’. Didn’t they teach you anything in school?
Today TIL.
RIP in peace.
I prefer wide local area network.
Actually now I’m curious. Could you do a lan game over a cell connection? Do carriers isolate devices?
Shaking my smh head, laughing my lmao off
For our LAN parties we would always help our fellow players carry their stuff and set everything up. Except for monitors. Everyone carries their own. You want to be fancy with 19 inches? Sure, but you carry that yourself!