How do you start multiplayer lan party?

[Kessykess]

I want to play halo reach infection with my friends all in one place just like the good ol days. I know lan parties are possible, but ive never done it om the pc before. How do you set it up?

[Pyrocitor]

What part do you want to know how to set up?

In game, just have everyone switch network in the game settings from Xbox Live over to LAN, and (in my experience) people on your local network (who have it set to LAN too) appear on the right side of the page when you're in a customs/campaign lobby, and you can invite them.

If you're asking how to actually connect those PCs in a LAN in the first place, there's guides you can find on Google/YouTube that will explain it best, but functionally you just need to get all those systems connected to the same network so that they can communicate between them without having to go out via the internet. So ideally Ethernet but WiFi works well too, as long as your router/WiFi adapter isn't causing much latency.

[Dr. ~ shatter proof ~]

Originally posted by Pyrocitor:

What part do you want to know how to set up?

In game, just have everyone switch network in the game settings from Xbox Live over to LAN, and (in my experience) people on your local network (who have it set to LAN too) appear on the right side of the page when you're in a customs/campaign lobby, and you can invite them.

If you're asking how to actually connect those PCs in a LAN in the first place, there's guides you can find on Google/YouTube that will explain it best, but functionally you just need to get all those systems connected to the same network so that they can communicate between them without having to go out via the internet. So ideally Ethernet but WiFi works well too, as long as your router/WiFi adapter isn't causing much latency.

Exactly this but would also like to add, the same network means the machines must all be on the same subnet (configured with a netmask), such as:

192.168.2.0 /24 

therefore all other network cards must be on

192.168.2.0 /24 

/24 simply describes a netmask of

255.255.255.0

Naturally, in the example above each machine would need unique IP's (the last octet) i.e. 192.168.2.1 / 192.168.2.2 and so on.

Normally if you connect all machines to your gateway / router or a switch (that is connected to your gateway / router) it (the gateway / router) often has a DHCP server running which will assign an IP address to anything hot plugged into network (these generally will all be attached to the same subnet).

Obv watch some guides etc, but it's pretty simple, if machines still can't see each other it is often then OS configuration and so on (firewall etc.). Come back if you run into any problems and we'll sort it out.