Dedicated server for games/ lan party?

danewesley

danewesley

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A few friends of mine from work are wanting to have a LAN party soon and it seems it has been left up to me to sort it all out. I have read a bit online about hosting a lan party etc, whats needed and i got on to servers.

I bought a tp-link 8 port switch for it and have started to learn how to set up servers, just done a ts3 server, and was wondering if it would be a good idea to build/buy a small server to host the games on? rather than on my pc.

I have no idea about setting up servers, but after reading through these threads and wanting to learn something new ,aside from building another pc, i think this would be interesting and worth investing time in.

cheers, dane
 
Depends if you want to invest the money in it. Most games will let one of the players be a listen server so you dont really need a dedicated one. Also check your if your games actually have LAN Functionality, a lot of games nowdays require an internet connection to sign in etc before you can even see servers, Steam, Windows Live Games etc
 
I know a group who 'do' Lan parties, they are called UTB LAN. They run them up here, twice per year, drop them an email and enquire, the website is rarely updated.

They make sure they have an internet connection, as usually you need to sign in on STEAM, or patching etc. They have a rack of gear, and the amount of power you might need is a bit insane!
 
i would be prepared to spend some money on it and some of the other guys have said if i need some cash they will help me out, as for games it will be the usual, like cs:s, lfd2, tf2 etc as for the tp link 8 port switch it was the 10/100 one, do you think it would make a difference if i bought a gigabit switch instead?

and for a budget to make a server, using second hand/new, the bay and mm id say im prepared to spend around £200 or so.
 
Any cheap computer will run all those games required. It should be able to run several at one time. The switch will be fine if you're purely gaming but if you intend to transfer lots of large files it will limit you.
 
well theres going to be around 8 of us, could be more in future, ive been pricing up second hand 16 and 24 port gigabit switches around £50 to £80, they seem quite good but i guess if the tp link one ive got will do then theres no point wasting money.
 
For a small number of users (say < 10) just running it on one of the peoples PCs would be fine, some servers will run without a user interface/graphics so you could use something not as powerful as the users'

Spend the £200 on beer and enjoy the party,

* Enjoy responsibly :)
 
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