It. Was. Epic. 10 times more fun than I had imagined. 5 times more difficult to plan and to set up as I had imagined. What did I do this weekend to celebrate my birthday? I just stayed at home and played on the computer all day. With 7 other people and tons of snacks. I hosted what is officially called a LAN party. I'll try to explain it as simply as possible. Basically, everyone brings over their computers, and they plug them into a box called an internet switch via LAN cables. The box is then plugged into my router, which gives everyone fast, shared internet. The fact that it is shared gives us many opportunities to play games together faster, without having to port forward or search for each other to obtain connection. So what we did was play a series of games together, either in competition or cooperatively, and we never really had to worry about lag or updates. (Thank you xfinity!) I'm really glad that I have this internet switch now, because I no longer have to run wires through a vent in order to get internet. Our router (the thing that gives you internet) is in a closet inside our bathroom in our basement. It has to be there because we have underground pipes with wires that allow for the office that we have next to our garage to have internet and for it to connect to our house intercom that we rigged to play music throughout our house. This makes it extremely difficult to get any of our computers internet without connecting wirelessly, which is often slower and unreliable. So what we have going is a LAN cable that runs around our heater and plumbing and through a vent that leads into our basement and then plugs into our computer. This means that in order to connect a computer that is 3 feet away, you have to have a cable that's 10 feet long. Now, we can simply plug that one cable we rigged into this little box, and we can connect 7 other computers to fast internet very easily. I'm definitely doing this again next year, but I'm going to give myself an hour to prepare rather than 30 minutes.
Chris
2/18/2013 03:15:03 am
I hope that can of lemonade was empty when it tipped...
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Conor
2/18/2013 05:26:21 am
That was Dave
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Dave
2/18/2013 09:30:42 am
No that was not Dave, Dave only drank Coke.
David
2/18/2013 09:30:07 am
Wow I am the only one cut out. Lie down, try not to cry, cry a lot.
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Franklin
3/6/2013 06:26:28 am
Don't feel so bad, I'm looking the other way.
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Nick
2/23/2013 10:57:24 pm
Look at me! I can fly!
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DLP
3/7/2013 04:02:57 am
I had never heard of this kind of party before...very interesting!
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