LAN Play

[Raptor]

I am bringing a friend into AH and want to teach him how to play before he gives the Free Trial a whirl. How do I set up a LAN play?

[Masherbrum]

Tutorial

[Dace]

[Donzo]

 LMAO

[Ghastly]

Yeesh - Comedians.

Anyway, I assume that you have a handle on how to configure arena settings once your running, and simply want the "quick and dirty" how to get it running on 2+ computers.

It's wicked simple.  On the more powerful computer, select the 8 Player Option from the main screen, then Create Lan Host, and give it a name.

On the second through eighth computer, select 8 Player,  select "Select Lan Game" and choose the name you assigned your host from the list.

Voila.



EDIT -> Note, you have to be inside the same firewall, or (presumably although I've never tried) both endpoints on the same VPN for it to work.  If you're really asking "How do I use Lan play to demo AH and I'm in Seattle and he's in Saratoga Springs" then that's a whole different ball game....

[Raptor]

same network same building etc. I did the create LAN thing but he did not see an available room when he selected LAN play. I don't know if there is aport I need to open on my machine or not.



Shun the non-believers!

[Masherbrum]

Originally posted by Raptor
Shun the non-believers!

While I'm thinking you were surprised, the other part of me KNOWS, you were laughing your arse off.  

See you in the skies friend,

K

[Atoon]

Nice Sig Raptor, mine was edited for length. I mustt not be hob-nobbin with the right mucky mucks.

[Raptor]

Yours also took up half a page if I recall Atoon, thanks for the Hijack attempt.

[Easyscor]

Originally posted by Raptor
same network same building etc. I did the create LAN thing but he did not see an available room when he selected LAN play. I don't know if there is aport I need to open on my machine or not.

On a home router, it's all automatic unless you close off the ports.

[Atoon]

Originally posted by Raptor
Yours also took up half a page if I recall Atoon, thanks for the Hijack attempt.

Your recalection is blury at best, Perhaps you are confusing mine with widewings old sig.  But know that If I was proud enuff to sport "AH Staff" in my BBS handle, I would be proud enuff to adhere BBS posting rules.


 

[Ghastly]

I'd disable any personal firewall you might be using on both systems and see if that fixes it.  I use Trend Micro, and it's always "just worked" for me, but some personal firewalls (i.e. Zone Alarm) can be highly problematic.

Someone posted at one point that a slow computer can have a hard time "seeing" a much faster host, so perhaps try switching the host and the client.

[SD67]

LAN play is not affected by the same issue that H2H is?

[off topic]Atoon, just shrink ur avvie a bit I've made several animated avvies that work just fine[/off topic]

[Ghastly]

LAN play is still enabled, if that's what you mean.  

[Denholm]

What version of windows do both the computers have?
Do both computers have these services running:

Network Connections

Remote Access Auto Connection Manager

Remote Access Connection Manager

Remote Procedure Call (RPC)

TCP/IP NetBios Helper Service

It may seem odd, yet a friend and I were testing around Network play using Hamachi, enabling those services allowed him to go from not seeing my arena or playing on it, to seeing the arena but not being able to play on it.

However I think that if the network is wired (your case) you might have better luck with it. The only other thing that I would recommend is installing "IPX/SPX/NetBIOS Compatible Transport Protocol" to both your computer connections. It allows compatibility between certain windows versions, it could help establish the LAN game.