Gaming Lan

[Biffster]

looking to do a one off LAN due to cheap hire of a hall.

about 20 peps coming

all i got is a 4 way hub :) and lots of RJ 45

Anyone point me in the right direction?
switches
routers
all in ones etc and basically the set up.

thinking of one main server then hub/router/switch then all other connect.

[KermitTheFrag]

a simple 24-port hub should be enough for 20 people. A switch may be better but will cost more.

Make sure they are 10/100 hubs/switches as people tend not to all run at 100baseT from my experience.

[Biffster]

just as i thought thanks ;)

[wishy]

you don't want hubs whatever. Advice would be to test the water, you never know, some people *DO* have 24 port switches they can take with them. Only downer being you screwed if they don't turn up, your buggered

[SquireMuldoon]

You really dont wanna use hubs for anything more than 8 people MAX. But given that you can buy an 8-port 10/100 switch for less than £45 why buy hubs at all?

You could make a 1 off purchase of a 24 port switch, but that will knock you back about £500 for a reasonable one. You could try linking several smaller switches like 3x8 ports, but I dont know what the performance would be like, and it doesn't have much scope for expansion.

[KermitTheFrag]

nothing wrong with 24-port hub if its mainly lan/game traffic. the usage shouldnt be too high for 24-people. There were 20 admins on a 10base2 stretch of yellow string where i worked and it was perfectly usable still ;) they were shoving entire oracle db's around.

switches would be better as per usual though.

how about a stacked arrangement of a central switch and sub-hubs?

[wishy]

Hubs are fine, as long as its just gaming, the minutes someone starts leeching, no matter what it is. you'll end up with fairly high ping.

[Biffster]

Originally posted by KermitTheFrag
nothing wrong with 24-port hub if its mainly lan/game traffic. the usage shouldnt be too high for 24-people. There were 20 admins on a 10base2 stretch of yellow string where i worked and it was perfectly usable still ;) they were shoving entire oracle db's around.

switches would be better as per usual though.

how about a stacked arrangement of a central switch and sub-hubs?
plan is use a 4 8 or 16 switch with sub hubs hold 4 in each if that makes sense, switcg#h will then send to hub and only block up local hubs and keeps down price ;)

[MONK]

I would either go for 2 * 16 ports or 3 * 8 ports the only thing about 3 * 8 ports not sure what the linking of them will be like........ I think it should be fine but never tried it....

The problem I see is if someone sends something to big to someone else on a different switch then all the bandwidth over the uplink will go!

[SquireMuldoon]

Of course, that wouldn't be any different if it was an uplink of a 16 or 24 port switch.

[MONK]

True but 24 port should mean less uplink traffic... should....

[wishy]

The only ideal solution is everybody on the same port, but hell, nothings ever perfect. At the end of the day, even with 3 daisy chained 8 ports, you'll be ok if you keep it to just games, hell, a hub would do the job.

[MONK]

True......


but one thing I have to wonder?

ideal solution is everybody on the same port

Nice :D

[Biffster]

we are getting there :) choooo chooooo

[Biffster]

ok guys got myself a 8port swirch and 2 x 4 port hubs, going to make switch main and have hibs running to 4 pc each ;) hopefully cut down on traffic

Next - i am looking for reccomendations for server tools and such, ie HLDS, cs server only, remote programs etc etc etc and anything u would feel that would benefit us. (BTW got a 1.4 AMD with 512 Ram as ded server)


stuff i looking to use:

HLRC
Gameadmin


if i can burn as many programs to disc before hand due to lack of net support there ;)

look forward to your replies ;)