Dreamhack - the 12,000 Computer Lan Party

Easy Rhino · Dec 1, 2011

I would really like to go to this one day. Of course, I won't come out smelling the same...

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/107245-inside-the-worlds-largest-lan-party

qubit · Dec 1, 2011

Sounds awesome. :cool:

Easy Rhino · Dec 1, 2011

i thought the 120Gbps backbone provided by Telia was a pretty amazing feature. I think W1z should do something like this for TPUers! ha!

Frick · Dec 1, 2011

i've thought about going there some time, my brother lives close to it. but nowadays i don't care that much for gaming anyway so it will probably not happen.

theJesus · Dec 1, 2011

I'd love to go, but y'know, I don't even live on the same continent

Also, not sure if I'm allowed to post this img tags, so I'll just link it :laugh:

http://www.extremetech.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/dreamhack-sex-doll.jpg

DannibusX · Dec 1, 2011

I watched the Starcraft 2 finals at Dreamhack. Hero v Puma. It was a pretty epic match, all 7 games were played.

I just reread that sentence. I wasn't AT Dreamhack. The tournament was there though, lol. I'd like to go to something like that someday.

1Kurgan1 · Dec 1, 2011

Frick said:
i've thought about going there some time, my brother lives close to it. but nowadays i don't care that much for gaming anyway so it will probably not happen.

Going to something like this isn't about gaming. It's about going just to be there, to be part of it. I could careless about gaming with 11,999 others i don't know, because odds are I won't be.

theJesus · Dec 1, 2011

Go to massive LAN. Play Skyrim the whole time.

de.das.dude · Dec 1, 2011

wonder if MRCL went there.

i wish there were LAN parties here.

WhiteNoise · Dec 1, 2011

I would not want to be there. But its cool...kinda.

I'd rather go to a smaller lan. More personal I'd think.

Disparia · Dec 1, 2011

de.das.dude said:
i wish there were LAN parties here.

Start one! The de.das.dude lan.o.rama.thon!

de.das.dude · Dec 1, 2011

Jizzler said:
Start one! The de.das.dude lan.o.rama.thon!

not with an empty wallet and no experience

sneekypeet · Dec 1, 2011

Corsair was covering this with mass amounts of images on their facebook page. Interesting pics to say the least, and there are Corsair babes!

John Doe · Dec 1, 2011

WhiteNoise said:
I would not want to be there. But its cool...kinda.

I'd rather go to a smaller lan. More personal I'd think.

Agreed, you'd be eaten up inside so much people. It looks cool from the pic, but not going to be when you get into that moshpit.

Besides, it's just 12.000 people. There's this MillionManLan...

http://www.lanwar.com/LWEventHome.asp?EventID=118

no girls on that one though. lol.

Kreij · Dec 1, 2011

The MML only draws a couple thousand of gamers from the way the site reads.

AphexDreamer · Dec 1, 2011

theJesus said:
I'd love to go, but y'know, I don't even live on the same continent

Also, not sure if I'm allowed to post this img tags, so I'll just link it http://www.extremetech.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/dreamhack-sex-doll.jpg

I see HON and Battlefield 3.

Whats not to post?

John Doe · Dec 1, 2011

Kreij said:
The MML only draws a couple thousand of gamers from the way the site reads.

You don't honestly think I was serious, right? I mean, a million people in a LAN? lol...

Sasqui · Dec 1, 2011

Great pics... This is impressive:

"The core switches for the DreamHack 120Gbps internet connection."

Are those Wifi dishes at the top?

AphexDreamer · Dec 1, 2011

Sasqui said:
Great pics... This is impressive:

http://www.extremetech.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/cisco-rack.jpg

"The core switches for the DreamHack 120Gbps internet connection."

Are those Wifi dishes at the top?

My first impression was that they were fans.

erocker · Dec 1, 2011

I'd rather go to a large concert and play Angry Birds on my phone.

brandonwh64 · Dec 1, 2011

Sasqui said:
Great pics... This is impressive:

http://www.extremetech.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/cisco-rack.jpg

"The core switches for the DreamHack 120Gbps internet connection."

Are those Wifi dishes at the top?

Can i haz nexus core switch?

phanbuey · Dec 1, 2011

This is cool... but I cant see myself wanting to go to one of these unless it was to compete (if I did that), and even then I would prolly prefer to do it from the comfort of my house...

The cool part is the infrastructure and what it took to pull it off... sitting in a plastic chair for a day surrounded by greasy dudes, on the other hand, doesnt seem that cool.

theJesus · Dec 1, 2011

I wonder how much the network engineers they contracted got paid . . .

phanbuey · Dec 1, 2011

That cisco switch alone must have cost a fortune... our itty bitty switches are like 20K.

Easy Rhino · Dec 1, 2011

i believe the ISP probably brought them in with the service they provided.

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