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Title: First 50 Things Setekh Should Do With His New Network
Post by: Setekh on February 13, 2005, 06:20:04 am

So in preparation for the broadband we're going to get installed in the next month or so, I decided to network our home laptop and PC and test out if I could establish internet connection sharing. It works! :D

But now that I have this network, I don't really have many ideas what to do on it. Good network games? Other suggestions? I'm pretty open. ;)

Title: First 50 Things Setekh Should Do With His New Network
Post by: aldo_14 on February 13, 2005, 06:25:35 am

Break it?

(or is that just me........)

Title: First 50 Things Setekh Should Do With His New Network
Post by: Ghostavo on February 13, 2005, 06:26:00 am

*looks throughout the forums*

FreeSpace?

Title: First 50 Things Setekh Should Do With His New Network
Post by: Nuke on February 13, 2005, 06:32:31 am

i once had a home tetwork but it was really quite useless.  get yourself a pda with a terminal services client and you can have some serious fun. imagine posting on hlp whilst defecating in the john :D seriously home networks arent really worth the trouble of having cables strung everywere, and go wireless its not worth the expense.  even if you get a cheap network up and running, all the time you will spend troubleshooting it will make it a total nightmare, hackers see more computers on your network they are gonna dig around and see what they can get into. but hey at least you can play lan games.

Title: First 50 Things Setekh Should Do With His New Network
Post by: Primus on February 13, 2005, 06:35:39 am

Yes, FreeSpace.

Title: First 50 Things Setekh Should Do With His New Network
Post by: Hippo on February 13, 2005, 07:28:57 am

I envy you and your broadband :p ...

Title: First 50 Things Setekh Should Do With His New Network
Post by: Martinus on February 13, 2005, 09:08:11 am

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Originally posted by Nuke
imagine posting on hlp whilst defecating in the john :D

[color=66ff00]I prefer the term 'multitasking' myself.

Anyhow, if you set up a network properly the only computer visible should be the one that directly connects to the net.

A lot of routers these days have a firewall built in which basically means that only the firewall is visible to the outside world.

I know the principles but lack the tech. speak to describe it properly. Need to figure out linux firewalls for myself at some point but that requires editing iptables and the like which I'm not too read up on.
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Title: First 50 Things Setekh Should Do With His New Network
Post by: Taristin on February 13, 2005, 09:29:45 am

Setekh should set up an advanced AI to monitor network activity, and watch as it developes it's own sentience and slaughters him in HALO multi every time he plays. :p

Title: First 50 Things Setekh Should Do With His New Network
Post by: übermetroid on February 13, 2005, 10:16:49 am

Play networked games together...

Like something on ZSNES or maybe play through Quake 2....  Or have some cool HW2 or Red Alert Battles....

And you can easily make backups of all your files..  (just copy to other computer)

Title: First 50 Things Setekh Should Do With His New Network
Post by: Stealth on February 13, 2005, 11:22:00 am

set up printer sharing (that's always fun) and get an access point, and go wifi :D

Title: First 50 Things Setekh Should Do With His New Network
Post by: Grey Wolf on February 13, 2005, 04:12:57 pm

For some reason, AoE2 is amazingly fun on a LAN.

Title: First 50 Things Setekh Should Do With His New Network
Post by: Corsair on February 13, 2005, 04:56:36 pm

Get The Array back online!!

Title: First 50 Things Setekh Should Do With His New Network
Post by: Unknown Target on February 13, 2005, 04:59:08 pm

System Shock 2 :)

Title: First 50 Things Setekh Should Do With His New Network
Post by: Setekh on February 13, 2005, 05:42:52 pm

Cheers, particularly for the words of warning Nuke. I would've appreciated them more 24 hours ago though, before I went through all the troubleshooting. ;) Turns out XP is pretty good at establishing all its networking stuff (file, print, connection sharing) and stuff on its own - and yes, it's all firewalled up.

Don't envy me yet, Hippo. :) Last time I tried to get broadband set up (a few years ago - the oldest HLPers will remember), I faced enough problems to have me tearing out my hair for a year and a day. That's why I'm still on dialup! But hopefully all will go to plan this time - monthly plans have gotten pretty cheap these days, too.

FS, Age of Empires, SS2... *adds them to the list* I'd better get some friends over. :)

Title: First 50 Things Setekh Should Do With His New Network
Post by: Galemp on February 13, 2005, 06:01:19 pm

Best LAN game I've ever played, is AVP2. It's fantastic for any number of players. If you have large groups though, go for Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory. It's got great team and class based action and it's free, to boot.

Title: First 50 Things Setekh Should Do With His New Network
Post by: Turambar on February 13, 2005, 07:29:31 pm

Jedi Academy is loads of fun, and saber combat is a much better test of skill than merely shooting guns at someone

Title: First 50 Things Setekh Should Do With His New Network
Post by: Sandwich on February 13, 2005, 07:40:59 pm

Serious Sam 1/2 Co-op all the way. :yes: ;)

Title: First 50 Things Setekh Should Do With His New Network
Post by: Nuke on February 13, 2005, 09:23:14 pm

i had a major problem with lan games. it was getting people to play with me. all the players i could ever get were kids and it was no chalenge. id ice hem in mechwarrior 4 no problem.  the only exception was when i played doom with my neice, who was 4 at the time, she was actually pretty good. so as usefull as my network was i did the only thing i could think of, i sold my other comuter and bought some weed. :thepimp:

Title: First 50 Things Setekh Should Do With His New Network
Post by: Fury on February 13, 2005, 11:28:14 pm

Play World of Warcraft... ;)
Although I suggest buying a hub or a router (latter with WLAN capability recommended). No need to mess with internet connection sharing and keep the computer turned on which is sharing the connection.

Title: First 50 Things Setekh Should Do With His New Network
Post by: Nuke on February 14, 2005, 12:57:00 am

just trick windows into thinking its a server cluster :D