[H] in northeast Texas?

Originally posted by Spinal
Too late... but yes, a bunch of idiots. Yeah I would love to have a LAN every now and then. There's plenty to do on weekends... if all you want to do is drink, drink and then drink again. Gets kind of old after awhile.

Well, it looks like I might have a site for LANs in a couple of months if you don't mind driving about 50 miles north of Nac. We're looking at buying a house here in Carthage, and I'm hoping to find one with at least one room large enough to host a LAN without driving my wife crazy. I've seen one that would be perfect for it, if they accept our offer.

I've got three or four high school seniors--my brother-in-law and some of his friends--who would be all about some LAN action, so we've pretty much got an instant LAN should I decide to get one going. And there are four XBOXes between us, for the console addicts.

Originally posted by PopeKevinI
Well, it looks like I might have a site for LANs in a couple of months if you don't mind driving about 50 miles north of Nac. We're looking at buying a house here in Carthage, and I'm hoping to find one with at least one room large enough to host a LAN without driving my wife crazy. I've seen one that would be perfect for it, if they accept our offer.

I've got three or four high school seniors--my brother-in-law and some of his friends--who would be all about some LAN action, so we've pretty much got an instant LAN should I decide to get one going. And there are four XBOXes between us, for the console addicts.

that would be cool, I'm like 45 min. out of Carthage plus I have family in Carthage who LANs so

Originally posted by PopeKevinI
Well, it looks like I might have a site for LANs in a couple of months if you don't mind driving about 50 miles north of Nac. We're looking at buying a house here in Carthage, and I'm hoping to find one with at least one room large enough to host a LAN without driving my wife crazy. I've seen one that would be perfect for it, if they accept our offer.

I've got three or four high school seniors--my brother-in-law and some of his friends--who would be all about some LAN action, so we've pretty much got an instant LAN should I decide to get one going. And there are four XBOXes between us, for the console addicts.

Yeah keep us posted... Would be a good break in between actually going to class. Good to hear there is someone around who is into that stuff.

Originally posted by Spinal
Yeah keep us posted... Would be a good break in between actually going to class. Good to hear there is someone around who is into that stuff.

Well, I'm probably going to make an offer later this week on a house with a 1200 square foot shop/garage. It could park four cars...I think that's ample space for a good LAN.

If all goes well, be warned...there's no broadband here in Carthage. So there wouldn't be net access.

I'm in Richardson, 30 mins outside Dallas. That's NE Texas, right? Need a job bad and will do just about anything.

Originally posted by PopeKevinI
Well, I'm probably going to make an offer later this week on a house with a 1200 square foot shop/garage. It could park four cars...I think that's ample space for a good LAN.

If all goes well, be warned...there's no broadband here in Carthage. So there wouldn't be net access.

The point of a LAN is to play LAN games... who needs net access... aside from pubbing.

Originally posted by ownerizer
I'm in Richardson, 30 mins outside Dallas. That's NE Texas, right? Need a job bad and will do just about anything.

Richardson is really more in north Texas. Besides that, I don't count the DFW area as anything but DFW

Good luck finding a job up there...I never could find anything that payed over $10 an hour (I used to make $18/hr there) and had to leave the area to come here.

Originally posted by Spinal
The point of a LAN is to play LAN games... who needs net access... aside from pubbing.

Well, there some people *sniffle* like me *sniffle* who still don't have the luxury of broadband and high speed internet and enjoy the speed of cable access at the occasional LAN.

Originally posted by Spinal
The point of a LAN is to play LAN games... who needs net access... aside from pubbing.

and I thought lan'ing was about file swapping..

Originally posted by ciscokid454
and I thought lan'ing was about file swapping..

well that too...

I'm in Fort Worth. Don't go to LANs though. I was never much into gaming. I understand there's a place in Dallas that hosts regular LANs. Might be called GameWorks or something. Try looking it up.

Originally posted by Jonny_B
I'm in Fort Worth. Don't go to LANs though. I was never much into gaming. I understand there's a place in Dallas that hosts regular LANs. Might be called GameWorks or something. Try looking it up.

odd, I've heard of the same place you're talking about Jonny, but I can't remember the name either. I know here in NE texas there is a actual lan center over in Tyler (Arena Tyler is the name iirc).

Originally posted by Jonny_B
I'm in Fort Worth. Don't go to LANs though. I was never much into gaming. I understand there's a place in Dallas that hosts regular LANs. Might be called GameWorks or something. Try looking it up.

what part of Ft. Worth?
i'm just west of fort worth in parker co.

There's a place called Gameworks (I think) in Irving, and I got the impression they might be a chain. Never went...too expensive for me. When I ran LAN parties, it was out of a computer shop so I could charge $5-10 a head for the whole day/night, serve pizza and drinks, and still pull a profit.

This house I want is taking forever to get the offer accepted. The agents expect the owner to accept, but they can't get in touch with him to get a "yes". If I do get it, we're talking a 1200 square foot shop/garage which will probably end up with as many network drops as are necessary for a LAN.

It would be a no-booze LAN, for those who care. Aside from my wife's objections to having a bunch of drunk geeks in her garage, I know we'll have some local high school seniors around and I for one don't feel like going to jail for contributing.

Oh yeah, one more reason for not having drunk geeks in the garage: I'M GONNA BE A FATHER!!!

Just found out a week ago...this garage is fairly sound-proofed from the rest of the house as best we could tell, but I'd rather not get in trouble for waking the kiddo up.

Originally posted by PopeKevinI
There's a place called Gameworks (I think) in Irving, and I got the impression they might be a chain. Never went...too expensive for me. When I ran LAN parties, it was out of a computer shop so I could charge $5-10 a head for the whole day/night, serve pizza and drinks, and still pull a profit.

This house I want is taking forever to get the offer accepted. The agents expect the owner to accept, but they can't get in touch with him to get a "yes". If I do get it, we're talking a 1200 square foot shop/garage which will probably end up with as many network drops as are necessary for a LAN.

It would be a no-booze LAN, for those who care. Aside from my wife's objections to having a bunch of drunk geeks in her garage, I know we'll have some local high school seniors around and I for one don't feel like going to jail for contributing.

Oh yeah, one more reason for not having drunk geeks in the garage: I'M GONNA BE A FATHER!!!

Just found out a week ago...this garage is fairly sound-proofed from the rest of the house as best we could tell, but I'd rather not get in trouble for waking the kiddo up.

Congatulations man. Keep us posted about the LAN. Sounds like fun. I think the no alcohol rule would be a good thing. Keep us posted!!

www.ghettolanparty.com

this is a local one that i go to, its awesome

and the next one in March is going to fill up quick, the one in January 10th was about 205 man lan,

check it out, my friends and i will be there, hit my pm box if u guys plan to go

-paulm

www.pcklan.com in april.

w00t.

Well, after four weeks of waiting for an answer, we have officially retracted the offer on the first house It's a shame, because I was very much looking forward to holding LANs in that 1200 sq ft garage.

We've already got another one in the works and should have it under contract by tomorrow. My wife knows the owner of this one, so I expect it will go better.

This one is inside the city limits (ugh) and on a smaller lot, but is much nicer inside. I'm sure something can still be worked out on running LANs from time to time, but we'll just have to wait and see.

in Euless there is this place called The Site.. at least i think that's what it is called can't remember the site's addy right now at school tryin' to do C++...

For me i live in Arlington/Grand Prairie border and we have LAN's all the time...

Originally posted by paulmofyourhand
www.ghettolanparty.com

this is a local one that i go to, its awesome

and the next one in March is going to fill up quick, the one in January 10th was about 205 man lan,

check it out, my friends and i will be there, hit my pm box if u guys plan to go

-paulm

I was last at a ghetto some two years ago ... Tell Cricket that Mike says hey