I am hosting a LAN party in about 3 weeks and I am currently getting all the hardware ready.
About 20 people are invited and everyone is connected by LAN (it’s a LAN! party ) so I need a switch.
I do have a switch with 48 ports but it is only 100Mbit. Will this work or do I need to buy a 1Gbit switch?
We will be playing just local games as there is no usable external internet connection (there is a mobile network connection, just to log in steam and such)
There will be a local Minecraft server that is hostet on an additional pc so my calculation is 100Mbit connection to server divided by 20 players gives everyone a 5Mbit connection. Is this possible to play lag free? same goes for Garry’s mod?
I just want to hear some thoughts
the upgrade to Gbit would be around 50$ for something used here in Switzerland but i would rather safe the money for games…
Once everyone downloads everything for the game, there is not much traffic used afterwards. It’s all just text. I think it will be fine with just 100 Mbit. What’s the total capacity on that switch?
Should probably be fine but will be a bit painful for updates if a few people dont have stuff installed. Which specific switch is it ? (not all can saturate all their ports)
For some reason I couldn’t connect to my Minecraft server via the same network, I had to connect to it via internet, might save some hassle if you make sure your switch/server has all the settings setup and can connect without the internet before hand
That is strange, I know that it works on my network. But then I have to try that with the new pc/server as my current online MC server is hosted by a Pi 4
Dont forget hygiene. Remember that this is pretty much an orgy of connections, one of those 20 PCs may have malware that can spread into the network. Have a good antivirus solution (or use linux), update windows if you have not done so and update windows defender as well.