Halo 2 Tournament

[Mike]

Hey, I've heard rumors of a halo 2 tournament during the Championships... any truth to it? If not, anyone wanna help me set one up?

[coreyjon]

Hmm, there will be, I'm sure of it. Last two years i've set up entire networks at the hotels i've stayed at. Let me tell you, airport secuity was perplexed when they saw I had over 1k feet of cat5 and network switch gear + xbox in my carry on. (some things are more important to carry on). we stayed at the westin last year, and I had cat5 running in the stairwells to other floors to play against other teams. This year I'm staying Mariot Marquis, not the west in, which was an awesome place, but the time it took to get any where do to the crowding was nuts. Great rooms though. No doubt i'll have enough cat5 and switch gear to set up some massive multiplayer bouts.

[devicenull]

I know we've been thinking of having some games.. wireless network of course.. provided I can get my laptop to bridge the wireless and ethernet networks. We're in the Holiday Inn, and it will be a 802.11b network

Anyone else staying there that wants to have some games? We would need another xbox

I'm actually hoping to go get a 500ft box of network cabling, so that would work

[coreyjon]

500ft or so should do ya, no need to go crazy like me. Wireless is nice, I think I have a wireless router lying around somewhere, Got it for free for buying something else at comp usa a while back, now just to remember where it is. I wonder how far away your hotel is from ours....I;m experimenting with building long range yagi antennas. (12+ Db gain) and more at night, which is when we would probably be playing anyway...so we could probably create a long range wireless network, if you had an antenna, and I had one, and we pointed them at each other, assuming some type of line of sight, it may work. I'll research where your hotel is and I'll compare it to where my hotel is, if by some chance there could be a line of sight, we could create a network for lan gamming, might be a fun experiment. if we have a good line of sight, we should be able to carry more than enough bandwidth over the short distance. This setup would work for about ten miles under ideal conditions.

which holiday inn are you staying at? The one on intl' blvd? We are staying at the marriot marquis, so once I know which one your staying at, I can determine if it would be possible.

[Hokie4Life]

You could ad hoc between two or more x-boxes using the game wireless adapters. That would seem to be easire than lugging around lots of Cat5 cable.

Thats my $0.02

[coreyjon]

yea, but in the past the cat 5 has worked great, as long as we manage to keep it out of the way (hide it) no one bothers with it, and we do it late at night, and clean it up before anyone is the wiser. That way not everyone has to have a wireless adapter. right now I'm experimenting with a Yagi antenna built from a Pringle's can to increase the gain by 12 DB's or more. So, if we wanted to play against other people in the other hotels...we could. I'm even testing passive repeaters to get the signal around corners, but I doubt I'll lug everything down to Atlanta, I may bring two Yagi's, so if I had to I could set up a long range wireless link to another hotel. We'll see, I'll bring enough gear to get up and running, I'm sure others will bring gear, and I'm sure there will be some LAN gaming. Idk, maybe if you interested in building your own Pringle's can Yagi antenna, scope out this link.

http://www.oreillynet.com/cs/weblog/view/wlg/448

[henryBsick]

I have waited for this thread for um....SO LONG
I am in... I have about 40 feet of cat 5 heh.
I will bring my box and all the goodies like halo1+2 and 4 controllers
Maybe we should get some cell phone numbers around through IM's or PM's or w/e to organize it once we get to the hotel.

[devicenull]

I have to wait until I get a replacement MB for one of my computers.. then I can start trying to see if my laptop can bridge a wireless and wired network. Otherwise I'll have to think of something else

[Masterfork]

Originally Posted by devicenull

I have to wait until I get a replacement MB for one of my computers.. then I can start trying to see if my laptop can bridge a wireless and wired network. Otherwise I'll have to think of something else

well have a router and a 20ft. etherenet cable and can get a 100 or 50 but i can't bring my x-box

[coreyjon]

Looking at a map, it shows my hotel, and the holiday inn about 1/3 of a mile away. My hotel is a 50 story beast, so line of site is still passable if my room is somewhere close to the south west corner of the building. The distance is so short that I'm not even worried about creating a network, I would still be interested in finding hotels farther away to establish a network with. Halo LAN game here we come. The games will probably be held late at night cause I'm sure we will all have things to do. Like swimming in the pools, enjoying the hot tubs, and hanging out with friends. Getting everyone's cell phone numbers is a good idea, I think that should be done in email or PM's as well.

[neilcooper]

we would need xbconect to do 32 people over wired/wireless and my comp has wireless in it and i am in embasy sweets

[devicenull]

Originally Posted by neilcooper

we would need xbconect to do 32 people over wired/wireless and my comp has wireless in it and i am in embasy sweets

I don't believe so. It really depends on the range of the wireless networks. I'm actually hthinking about buying a 5db antenna for my laptop.. instead of my current one which has an integrated card and antenna.

If the wireless reaches, we would be able to form an ad-hoc wireless netowkr, meaning the xbox's would be going over the lan, not the internet. Its the same thing if you take 2 xbox game adapters (which are nothing more then wireless bridges) and use them to link the system.

[neilcooper]

My team Will be in the embassy sweats hotel are there any teams there up for h2? I have 50ft of crossover cable and 50ft of regular cable

[oreocookeee]

to back up kyle, team 810 will be in the marriott marquis with at least a two xbox network. im one of us if you want to hook up. (i mean that literally)

[Barry Bonzack]

I am borrowing one of the school's LCD wall projectors for various demos the team has been doing. My friends and I have used it to play Halo 2 from floor to ceiling. I'll see what I can do about catching up with some of you guys in Atlanta. if there is a LAN party at the Omni, someone PM me about it, I may end up there.