Lan Gaming with Steam Deck ??? i say its absolutly Possible ; PLUG n Play

[Alex]

Hello Everyone i want to tell that Lan Gaming / Lan Party´s with Steam Deck works :)

All you need is a Laptop, Virtual Lan Router Manager ( Software) and an W-Lan Adal+pater. I used a Netgear Wireless N-300 USB Adapater WNA 3100.

All you have to do is.

Use a Laptop and install and start Virtual Lan Router Manager, then look for your WLan Stick in my case it was Wlan 2. Set SSID and Passwort and click on Start Virtual Router.

Then open Steam Menu in your Steam Deck--- Wlan and look for the SSID you Set.

Login and start any Game you want between Steam Decks or Windows Laptop.

When you are conntectet on the internet with your w-lan stick then the steam deck has Internet too.

So you can play Lan and Online Mode.

[Schorsch Wadschinken]

With GPD Wins and PCs in general we were able to play in LAN simply by sharing the WiFi on one of the systems and having the others connect to that WiFi, which means all devices are in the same LAN

Is that not possible to do in SteamOS? Having to carry around laptops and adaptors defintely starts to defeat the purpose of portability

I'm thinking in theory you should just be able to connect all Steam Decks to a smartphone hotspot, so they're all in the same LAN that way as well. Definitely a better alternative than carrying around a laptop

[Alex]

Yes for PC Gaming it's nothing new. In Steam OS it's not possible actually to etablish a Lan Connection. Steam OS has no option for Ad-Hoc too.

I don't know how stable the connection over a Smartphone is. I will test it.

But for bigger LANs a Laptop is much better offline TeamServer for Filesharing.

But you can play Lan between Deck and Laptop/PC too.

This is when you friends don't have a Deck.

I tested the Hotspot over Smartphone. No additional Software is needed both devices had a perfect connection and an extremely low ping.

Max Connectios 10

[Prezidentas]

Originally posted by Alex:

Yes for PC Gaming it's nothing new. In Steam OS it's not possible actually to etablish a Lan Connection. Steam OS has no option for Ad-Hoc too.

I don't know how stable the connection over a Smartphone is. I will test it.

But for bigger LANs a Laptop is much better. Offline TeamSpeak Server / File Sharing etc

since deck is a PC, it's also capable of running voice chat and sharing files...

[JinxPL]

You can probably set a router mode for Linux somehow; or just use your mobile phone's router mode.

[ReBoot]

https://www.bing.com/search?q=linux+ad-hoc+wlan
Sometimes, it's just gloves. Reference: https://thedailywtf.com/articles/Classic-WTF-The-Complicators-Gloves

[Alex]

Smartphone is enough. You can play out of the OS every Game in Lan Mode.

It worked and iam Happy.

I don't need to go on Desktop Mode.

And Cross play with Gamers that don't have a Deck is very nice 👍

Plug n play

You don't need to set anything.

Just create a Hotspot via Smartphone
WLAN - Join with your Decks, Laptops , Gaming PCs in the Hotspot and you can play every Game in LAN Mode.

It's just perfect

[Marlock]

smartphone hotspots may expose one device to the other but may isolate them, providing only internet instead of a functional local network

any router everyone connects to via wifi should work

and I'd have a look if the Steam Deck really doesn't support setting up hotspots... i suspect it can be setup via Desktop mode (then kept working while switching back to fullscreen mode)

since SteamOS 3 is based on Arch Linux, the Arch Wiki will probably contain clues to how it can be done via terminal, if there is no explicit option in the graphical interface for wifi settings yet
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Ad-hoc_networking

edit:
I checked the wike and this looks likely available in desktop mode to configure adhoc networks and/or wifi hotspots on a Deck:

Create the shared connection:
- Click on applet and choose Create new wireless network.
- Follow wizard (choose WPA2 or higher, be sure to use at least 8 character long password, lower lengths will fail).
- Choose either Hotspot or Ad-hoc as Wi-Fi mode.

The connection will be saved and remain stored for the next time you need it.

Note: Android does not support connecting to Ad-hoc networks. To share a connection with Android use infrastructure mode (i.e. set Wi-Fi mode to "Hotspot").

"applet" should be the wifi icon that offers quick settings