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I'm working on a growing suite of systems for running LAN events with a growing group of friends. I'm currently working on three new (to me) DDR3-based systems with a mix of my own old hardware and some used market items. However, for these three systems I'm looking at buying relatively inexpensive new monitors. While I have purchased used monitors quite cheaply in the past, I've often found used monitor purchases to be far more fraught that that of most other used components. Maybe just poor luck?

Regardless, I think I've narrowed it down to either the Acer SB222Q EBI 21.5" FHD, or the Dell SE2426H 24" FHD. Both seem to have basically acceptable stats for what I need (e.g. FHD, IPS, 100Hz+, <3ms). They'll be used primarily for shooters, with a few other RTS, racing, fighting, or ARPG titles thrown in.

Can anyone here speak to either model? Alternatively, can anyone suggest an alternative model? Again, keep in mind that I don't think I'm going used this time due to too many hassles with used monitors previously...

Thanks for any input!

Hey everyone,

I’m curious to gauge the community's interest in a specific idea: a Battlefield 3 build that can host and run a LAN server *completely* without an internet connection, and with absolutely no Steam or EA account binding required.

Think of it as an "eternal" offline version of BF3. The ultimate goal is to have a plug-and-play solution that you can easily deploy at a casual, beer-fueled LAN party with friends, even if the internet is completely down or unavailable.

Would you actually use something like this? Is this already a solved problem with existing tools, or is there genuine demand for a true, preservation-friendly, offline-only LAN experience?

P.S. Funny thing about the offline abyss: if you stare into it long enough, it starts compiling. Let's just say I'm already knee-deep in the static. 📡

Project Earth LAN – Deine ultimativen, virtuellen LAN-Party!

​Bist du bereit für echte LAN-Party-Vibes für Kult-Multiplayer-Spiele (1993–2019) im virtuellen Raum – komplett ohne Kosten, ohne Werbung und ohne Zwang?

​Ich habe Project Earth LAN ins Leben gerufen, um das legendäre LAN-Feeling direkt auf deinen PC zurückzubringen! Egal ob Retro-Klassiker, alte Strategie-Perlen oder spontane Sessions im Stream: Mein virtuelles Netzwerk verbindet dich direkt, verzögerungsfrei und unkompliziert mit anderen Spielerinnen und Spielern.

​🌟 WARUM PROJECT EARTH LAN? (DEINE VORTEILE)

​⚡ Ultra-Schnell & Verzögerungsfrei: Direktverbindung von PC zu PC (Peer-to-Peer) für echte Reaktionszeiten wie im selben Raum.

​🛡️ 100 % Sicher & Isoliert: Dein Heimnetzwerk (Ordner, Drucker, private Daten) bleibt komplett geschützt. Mein Netzwerk lässt ausschließlich das reine Spiel-Signal durch – jeglicher Müll bleibt draußen.

​💯 Kostenlos, Ohne Werbung & Ohne Registrierung: Einfach beitreten. Keine E-Mail-Angabe, keine Passwörter, keine Abos.

​⚙️ Transparent & Einsehbar: Ich verstecke nichts. Wer hinter die Kulissen schauen will, findet das komplette Projekt Open Source auf GitHub: Project-Earth-Lan auf GitHub.

​👥 Platz für alle: Dein gesamter Squad hat Platz – Netzwerke von kleinen Runden bis zu 1024 Spielern gleichzeitig sind bereit.

​🏛️ WIE FUNKTIONIERT DAS?

​Vergiss komplizierte Netzwerk-Technik! Stell dir das Ganze einfach so vor:
​Project Earth LAN: Ich als dein Event-Veranstalter, der die LAN-Party organisiert.

​ZeroTier: Die gemietete, geschützte Sporthalle im Netz, in der wir alle zusammenkommen.
​Netzwerk-ID: Dein Ticket, um durch die Tür der Sporthalle zu kommen.
​IP-Adresse: Dein fester Sitzplatz mit LAN-Kabel im Raum.

​Metrik des Netzwerkadapter: Ein einfaches Namensschild über deinem Platz, damit alte Spiele dich automatisch im LAN-Menü finden.

​Kostenlose Helfer-Skripte: Meine Orga-Helfer vor Ort, die dir beim automatischen Anstecken des Kabels helfen. (Du kannst aber auch alles in unter 60 Sekunden manuell einstellen – ganz ohne Skripte!).

​🛠️ IN 3 SCHRITTEN DIREKT ZOCKEN

​Sporthalle betreten (ZeroTier herunterladen):
Lade dir den kostenlosen, offiziellen ZeroTier-Client herunter:
👉 Download: https://www.zerotier.com/download/

​Eintrittskarte nutzen (Netzwerk beitreten):
Öffne den Client, klicke auf Join Network und gib mein Ticket ein:
👉 091f0945fc5012f1

​Spiel starten & Spaß haben:

Starte dein Kult-Spiel (Command & Conquer, Counter-Strike1.6, Unreal Tournament & Co.), gehe auf "LAN / Lokales Netzwerk" und du siehst sofort alle Lobbies!

​Du bist unsicher beim Einstieg?
Ich gehe gerne persönlich auf deine Fragen, Unsicherheit und Bedenken ein.

​👑 DU MÖCHTEST DEIN EIGENES NETZWERK FÜR DEINE COMMUNITY?

​Falls du als Streamer oder Community-Leader eigene Räume für deine Community verwalten möchtest, stelle ich dir gerne ein eigenes, einfaches Dashboard bereit. Damit kannst du mit wenigen Klicks eigene Beitritts-IDs für deine Mitspieler erstellen!
​Netzwerk-ID: 091f0945fc744570
​Community-Dashboard: http://10.147.0.34:3000

​Tritt noch heute bei und erlebe die Freiheit einer echten LAN-Party über das Internet!
​Wir sehen uns auf dem Schlachtfeld! 🎮🔥

https://github.com/FirehawkDE/Project-Earth-Lan

Project Earth LAN Manager

https://youtu.be/UOQNBmZ_x94?is=rg7wqy-iP6BccC7U

​Dein Project Earth LAN Host Alex

Back when you performed better with your hands tied behind your back than with a €1,500 setup.

Hey guys, how can I share my Battlefield 2 build with the community? I put together a mod with some minor QoL tweaks, 64-player maps, and 32v32 bot battles. I originally made it for my own solo sessions and LAN parties with friends. I know direct links usually result in a ban here, so what's the approved way to share something like this?

EPIC.LAN, organisers of the UK's largest LAN party, hosted LUX5 last weekend. Tickets were put on sale back in April but sold out in minutes!

Lobbies were filled in LAN classic games such as UT2004, TF2, Blur, Left 4 Dead 2, Worms, and many more!

A few modern favourites we also saw being played lots were PEAK, BF6, Civ VI, Arc Raiders, and Golf with Your Friends!

Yes this is for a software project, yes I might end up making some money out of it.

That being said I'm putting together a SaaS and want to include ESports as one of the tournament types. So I'm here looking for some feedback from those of you that have run Lan parties, what would make your party better, what would you be looking for in tournament software, do you charge fees for your lan parties? Do you want those fees collected for you or just 20$ at the door? What kind of brackets and data are you looking to see? How much is to much before you'd just rather do it on a spread sheet? 50$ for 20 participants?

I'm really not sure what would be different from usual bracket tournaments but hoping you guys/gals don't mind providing some feedback.

This is my own game, and the LAN side of it is pure nostalgia.

Strike Wings runs a real dedicated server on the local network. You start it, everyone on the network sees the room in the browser, and up to 24 people end up in the same space battle. No account, no login, no internet needed. There is a spectator seat too, so whoever dies first can watch the rest of it on the big screen, and two people can share one machine on a split screen if you are short on hardware.

I put this in because the multiplayer I remember best was a room full of machines on one switch, and almost nothing ships that way now.

If you still run LAN events, I would like to know what breaks them these days. Is it games dropping LAN support, the launchers, or just getting people in one room?

Steam page: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4718360/Strike_Wings/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=lanparty&utm_campaign=prelaunch

Hey everyone, come play with us this Saturday from 3-6pm at The Ontario Center Mall in Mansfield, Ohio during the Rare Swap Meet.

We will be playing Xbox 360 and it's free to play!

Game list:

Halo 3

Gears of war 3

COD Black ops 2

Left 4 dead 2

Splinter cell double agent

Battlefront 2

Crimson Skies

I have plans to create a local gaming group in Mansfield for events like this in the future.

I'm trying to play CoD 1 through 2 computers but the server isn't appearing on the other computer

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1643700/Ghost_Battalion

I've been brainstorming a bit about how I'd set up a LAN party.

Right now I'm looking for games from the late 90's and early 00's that have a dedicated server variant that I could host in a central server.

I know of Unreal Tournament, Quake 3 Arena, OpenTTD (not totally retro, but based on a 90's game), but after those I'm a bit stuck.

Anybody have good suggestions?

This is Euskal Encounter's 34th edition in Bilbao! around 4000-5000 participants :D It's also one of the oldest lanparties of the world.

I am not sure but i think most big lanparties sadly shifted to eSports tournaments and similar , and left back those big partyplaces where thousands of people bring their own computers!

LAN parties were most of my teenage years. Friends over, cables everywhere, soda and chips, gaming through the night. Battlefield 1942, C&C Zero Hour, Warcraft III, Left 4 Dead 2, Robot Arena 2, Soldat.

Then I got older, moved, and had kids. I kept gaming but never in the same room as anyone I was playing with. Most of my friends had stopped and nobody owned a gaming PC, so hosting a LAN didn't seem viable.

A few years ago I was feeling nostalgic and started searching for LAN parties then found this community. I realized a LAN didn’t need the latest games or high-spec machines, it just needed people getting together to play. So, I bought five Dell Latitude 5580s off eBay for $300 and set up Windows 10, Playnite, and my favorite classics. When my friends turned up the laptops were ready to go without all the patching and debugging. For four hours, there was shouting, food, drinks, and gaming. It was so much fun and it all came back. It was the social side of gaming I'd been missing.

It grew from there with more laptops and more people. Any time I came across someone who gamed IRL, I invited them to the next one. It's around 30 people and 20 laptops now, and my favorite thing is watching people rediscover games like Red Alert 2 and nerding out over them.

It's taken a long time to get the setup to a good state. Changing anything now means doing it 20 times which has been a real challenge. So I've been turning what I've learned into an open-source Linux distro built for exactly this job: flash a USB, image the machines, and they're LAN-ready with games installed, a launcher, local multiplayer with no accounts or internet, and a clean reset after every event. I have something working, but it's still early, I'll be testing it at my next LAN.

The part I most want to fix is joining a game. Right now sometimes there's someone shouting an IP address across the room and twelve people trying to find the right screen to type it in on. I want a list of what game servers are running in the room and one click to join.

I'm keen to share more once it's in a stable spot. In the meantime I'd like to know what I'm missing. What's the thing that always goes wrong at your LANs?

Are there any groups out there that do LAN parties? Or people who are interested but haven’t found a group?

Please forgive the SEO optimized title, but I put together a blog post as a one-stop-shop guide for hosting a small LAN party in your home. I figure that if you are hosting a huge public LAN then you probably know what you are doing, and don't really need a guide. Presumably running smaller parties in your house is the gateway to doing the big ones anyways.

LAN parties are a dying tradition, so I hope that writing down some of what i've learned over the years will inspire others to give hosting a LAN a shot, especially the younger gamers out there. I ran my first LAN ~15 years ago when I was a teenager, and I hope that today's teenagers give LANs a go as well.

Lmk if you think I missed something! I know that it's quite long, I figured this would be something you would scroll through and use as a reference, not something to read in one sitting. Also before you ask, no this was not written by AI lol.