Interest in Starcraft LAN at MGC

[jdmlight]

To tell you the truth its been a long time since I played starcraft, but it would be cool if I was there. Prolly not going to be in the LAN from home.

Aww. We're Benheckers, we can certainly figure out a way to make it work if you wanted to.

Actually, bicostp, I was thinking of having everyone on a local LAN, with a WRT54G acting as the internet gateway (to the hotel's wifi), then using a VPN of some sort for external players. It's something I've always wanted to try (I've run a number of LAN parties, I'm better at running them than I am at winning ). That way everyone that's sitting right next to each other get the benefit of the local LAN, and external users can still connect. That way, if something goes wrong with the VPN part, you'd only lose the people playing outside the local LAN.

[bicostp]

Which is exactly what the second scenario I threw together does. It just uses one of the laptops as the VPN gateway instead of the router. (Is the router running custom firmware to act as a repeater?)

[jdmlight]

Which is exactly what the second scenario I threw together does. It just uses one of the laptops as the VPN gateway instead of the router. (Is the router running custom firmware to act as a repeater?)

Yup! I love DD-WRT. There are so many added features.

[alentris]

To tell you the truth its been a long time since I played starcraft, but it would be cool if I was there. Prolly not going to be in the LAN from home.

Aww. We're Benheckers, we can certainly figure out a way to make it work if you wanted to.

Actually, bicostp, I was thinking of having everyone on a local LAN, with a WRT54G acting as the internet gateway (to the hotel's wifi), then using a VPN of some sort for external players. It's something I've always wanted to try (I've run a number of LAN parties, I'm better at running them than I am at winning ). That way everyone that's sitting right next to each other get the benefit of the local LAN, and external users can still connect. That way, if something goes wrong with the VPN part, you'd only lose the people playing outside the local LAN.

I'll root around for a disk drive to install it on my netbook

[ghosstt]

To tell you the truth its been a long time since I played starcraft, but it would be cool if I was there. Prolly not going to be in the LAN from home.

Aww. We're Benheckers, we can certainly figure out a way to make it work if you wanted to.

Actually, bicostp, I was thinking of having everyone on a local LAN, with a WRT54G acting as the internet gateway (to the hotel's wifi), then using a VPN of some sort for external players. It's something I've always wanted to try (I've run a number of LAN parties, I'm better at running them than I am at winning ). That way everyone that's sitting right next to each other get the benefit of the local LAN, and external users can still connect. That way, if something goes wrong with the VPN part, you'd only lose the people playing outside the local LAN.

I'll root around for a disk drive to install it on my netbook

Register an account an your game on battle.net and you can just download it for free.

[jdmlight]

To tell you the truth its been a long time since I played starcraft, but it would be cool if I was there. Prolly not going to be in the LAN from home.

Aww. We're Benheckers, we can certainly figure out a way to make it work if you wanted to.

Actually, bicostp, I was thinking of having everyone on a local LAN, with a WRT54G acting as the internet gateway (to the hotel's wifi), then using a VPN of some sort for external players. It's something I've always wanted to try (I've run a number of LAN parties, I'm better at running them than I am at winning ). That way everyone that's sitting right next to each other get the benefit of the local LAN, and external users can still connect. That way, if something goes wrong with the VPN part, you'd only lose the people playing outside the local LAN.

I'll root around for a disk drive to install it on my netbook

I have it on a flash drive. I already thought of the netbook users.

[xtrmgam3r360]

I'll probably join in, depending on how late I actually stay at the hotel.

[alentris]

To tell you the truth its been a long time since I played starcraft, but it would be cool if I was there. Prolly not going to be in the LAN from home.

Aww. We're Benheckers, we can certainly figure out a way to make it work if you wanted to.

Actually, bicostp, I was thinking of having everyone on a local LAN, with a WRT54G acting as the internet gateway (to the hotel's wifi), then using a VPN of some sort for external players. It's something I've always wanted to try (I've run a number of LAN parties, I'm better at running them than I am at winning ). That way everyone that's sitting right next to each other get the benefit of the local LAN, and external users can still connect. That way, if something goes wrong with the VPN part, you'd only lose the people playing outside the local LAN.

I'll root around for a disk drive to install it on my netbook

I have it on a flash drive. I already thought of the netbook users.

K, i'll just install it tomorrow then... (P.S. TOMORROW!!!)

[kingpin901]

Could be interesting

[wallydawg]

Did you guys even play? :p

[Squintus]

I blame John for this not happening.

[jdmlight]

I blame John for this not happening.

Hey now, I had everything all ready in case we wanted to play, but we had plenty of other stuffs going that we didn't need a LAN party. I think we maybe could have fit it in if more people had stayed for Sunday.

[Metallica Man X]

Yeah, I was hoping to get in on Sunday's activities...too bad Brian had to leave (him being our ride).