Me and a few friends use to run them at our local town hall.. Around 40 people. When the hall got internet access it was probably the worst thing to happen as everyone stopped playing games against each other and started playing WOW on the net! Grr!
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Me and a few friends use to run them at our local town hall.. Around 40 people. When the hall got internet access it was probably the worst thing to happen as everyone stopped playing games against each other and started playing WOW on the net! Grr!
Is there a set guide to power limitations? Or should the venue owners just know their limitations and feed them back to me?
Why give up! The owner of multiplay lives round the corner from me, and he started with a few mates round his house.
There's a lot to it, but that doesn't make it any less achievable... just more of a challenge.
That's a hell of a lot of pizza
I-series LANs were awesome for pizza - I'd wager most people had pizza over the 4 days and there were 1,000 people there. £5 for a large pizza on the first day as well, winner
Biggest issue probably is the one mentioned by uvmain - not all venues will have the electricity setup to power 50-60 PCs on the go... although if your aiming for a venue thats part of a larger complex i.e. a school or is used regularly for entertainment with stage lighting and so on its less likely to be a problem.
If its a larger venue they probably have an electricity contract and the amount they pay might not be that much dented by your useage... your probably looking at £50-100 otherwise depending on how many people bring killer SLI quad core machines and how many people use laptops or other lower powered LAN PCs.
Any half decent DSL connection should surfice for letting people check email, facebook, etc. tho you'd need a faster upstream if you have a large number of the people there trying to play online at the same time as you'd quickly swamp your average 128-500kbit upstreams. Obviously you need some firm policies in place to prevent people taking the mick and torrenting or other unnecessary downloads. Ideally if you want a good number of people to be able to play online at the same time without too much lag from people web browsing then 10Mbit down and 2.5Mbit up would be required along with some UDP prioritization if possible.
Last time I was involved in organising a LAN was only about 1/3rd the number of people your talking about but our electricity useage wasn't over the allocation that went with renting the place so we didn't have to pay any extra.
Another consideration is security (and possibly first aid with something that large)... hopefully everyone will play nice but at the last LAN I went to we had to call the cops coz one guy turned up high, got very agressive and wouldn't leave.
If its a larger venue they probably have an electricity contract and the amount they pay might not be that much dented by your useage... your probably looking at £50-100 otherwise depending on how many people bring killer SLI quad core machines and how many people use laptops or other lower powered LAN PCs.
Any half decent DSL connection should surfice for letting people check email, facebook, etc. tho you'd need a faster upstream if you have a large number of the people there trying to play online at the same time as you'd quickly swamp your average 128-500kbit upstreams. Obviously you need some firm policies in place to prevent people taking the mick and torrenting or other unnecessary downloads. Ideally if you want a good number of people to be able to play online at the same time without too much lag from people web browsing then 10Mbit down and 2.5Mbit up would be required along with some UDP prioritization if possible.
Last time I was involved in organising a LAN was only about 1/3rd the number of people your talking about but our electricity useage wasn't over the allocation that went with renting the place so we didn't have to pay any extra.
Another consideration is security (and possibly first aid with something that large)... hopefully everyone will play nice but at the last LAN I went to we had to call the cops coz one guy turned up high, got very agressive and wouldn't leave.
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I used to be big in to Lan gaming in the early days and have been involved in a good few bigger and smaller lans than yours.
A venue with decent power is your number 1 concern, look at a decent size hotel and get yourself a realsitic budget , I assume your going to ask for a donation/fee from the people attending, you want a good 2/3 going on paying for the venue.
A decent venue will be able to tell you exactly what sort of power requirement they can handle , do the maths as above and make sure you are nowhere near what they say they can handle.
Forget internet access its just fluff , any good hotel will be able to offer some sort of "emergency",ie expensive access.
So find a venue with good power first everything else is fairly simple with only about 60 peeps.
Hotels are fairly ideal but can be expensive.
A venue with decent power is your number 1 concern, look at a decent size hotel and get yourself a realsitic budget , I assume your going to ask for a donation/fee from the people attending, you want a good 2/3 going on paying for the venue.
A decent venue will be able to tell you exactly what sort of power requirement they can handle , do the maths as above and make sure you are nowhere near what they say they can handle.
Forget internet access its just fluff , any good hotel will be able to offer some sort of "emergency",ie expensive access.
So find a venue with good power first everything else is fairly simple with only about 60 peeps.
Hotels are fairly ideal but can be expensive.