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LAN ready holiday home?

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  • 04-09-2011 12:43pm
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    Magic Pips
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    Hey All,

    Bit of a shot in the dark here, i'm looking for a holiday home in ireland suitable for having a LAN (nerds putting there computers together and gaming with lard and booze). Maybe 10 people will be there - but we required decent internet, ideally fibre connection. (10 meg up/10 meg down would be perfect).

    Anyone know of holiday accomodation that happens to have this?

    Thanks for reading
    Pips


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    Kells...
    Registered Users Posts: 3,721 ✭✭✭Kells...


    Not sure if any provider in Ireland has 10 up tbh.


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    Magic Pips
    Registered Users Posts: 621 ✭✭✭Magic Pips


    TroutFisher wrote: »
    Not sure if any provider in Ireland has 10 up tbh.

    Any Fibre to the home house would have it available

    http://magnet.ie/index.php/Products/fibre-to-the-home.html


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    ED E
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    No, he's right, getting 10 up would be unusual. The most available providers are UPC and Eircom, and even at 50Mb which isnt cheap you'll only get like 5Mb up.

    It would never really be feasible for any kind of holiday home or w/e to have such a connection, most clients wouldnt care. Hotels might have a decent line for the whole building, but usually the system has balancing, and the chances of staff knowing how to give you more to play around with are slim.


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    corblimey
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    "lard"???


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    PogMoThoin
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    If its a lan why do you even need a broadband connection? All you need is a router.


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    Sisko
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    I imagine they might all wanna join an online game too as a group.


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    Retr0gamer
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    If there's a lan we never go online, it's not as much fun. Have had great LANs with far less people.
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    Zillah
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    Even if you are playing online, how could you need that much up speed? Surely a decent ping is the issue, not having a wide pipe.


    lol


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    Overheal
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    Aren't people in the wireless age these days? Lanbox with wireless N, wireless router (a deacent one) and you're sorted. Beats running a quarter mile of Cat6.


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    cython
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    Zillah wrote: »
    Even if you are playing online, how could you need that much up speed? Surely a decent ping is the issue, not having a wide pipe.


    lol

    If there are enough of them there having decent bandwidth becomes necessary for ensuring/maintaining a decent ping, and avoiding queuing to be employed on the uplink. There would need to be a lot of them, I'll grant you, but even 10 people could struggle on some of Eircom's packages.


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    Shiminay
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    It's worth keeping in mind there's no LAN option in a lot of newer games anymore :( SC2 being a major example/ problem, it's ridiculous that Blizzard simply won't enable the code for it.


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    ED E
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    Shiminay wrote: »
    It's worth keeping in mind there's no LAN option in a lot of newer games anymore :( SC2 being a major example/ problem, it's ridiculous that Blizzard simply won't enable the code for it.

    They wants their $$$. Its a pain, but its good anti-piracy.


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