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Bigger mini-LAN

Posted at April 21, 2007 1:00 pm | In Personal | By Ben Woodruff

Tags: Gaming, Halo, Halo 2, Microsoft, Xbox Live

Over spring break we got together for a slightly larger LAN party.
Halo 2 multi-player was amazing, as always.

Ben, Jordan, Graham, Bill, Steve
Myself, Jordan, Graham, Bill, and Steve (left to right)

The crew
(front view, names are right to left in this one)

Good fun.

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Mini-LAN

Posted at April 12, 2007 10:12 am | In Personal | By Ben Woodruff

Tags: Gaming, Halo, Halo 2, Microsoft, Xbox Live

I went over to Jordan’s yesterday and bought his Xbox and one of his 24 port switches.
We setup a mini-LAN and are going to get together again today (hopefully with Steve and Bill) and play some Halo 2 or something.

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Live podcast? + Time Warner problems

Posted at April 8, 2007 6:58 pm | In Podcasting | By Ben Woodruff

Tags: Media, Minimal Perfection, Networking, Podcasting, RoadRunner, Sidestream Media, Time Warner

Jordan and I may be getting together to record a podcast in the same room! woot.
Normally we are talking over Skype, which can be annoying due to bandwidth issues and such.

Also apparently TWC had some trouble with their cable lines and because they don’t want you using their dial-in service as a “backup” if your home cable goes out, they were nice enough to disable dial-in logins today. I was unaware of these problems because my cable at both home and work was working fine, so when I went to my grandparents and tried to dial in… I was not happy. So I drove over to work and tried to talk to them over their Live Chat support… they were rude and basically told me that even though there was no real reason I should not be able to login to the dial-in access, I couldn’t because of the cable outage. Thanks Time Warner! Stand up service.

It’s a pain in the butt to get their dialup to work even when they don’t close it off due to unrelated problems. I made a post a while ago on how to work around RoadRunner’s horrible dialer and connect under OS X. You can probably do something similar under Windows and Linux but unfortunately I don’t have specific instructions. The key thing is to use aolnet/ent.youremail as the user name.

It sucks that there are no good ISPs.

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