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> but I also remember the networking problems I had at the start of _every_ LAN party. Oh of course. It wasn't a LAN party until you spent hours fiddling with
by julianlam 3y ago
> but I also remember the networking problems I had at the start of _every_ LAN party.
Oh of course. It wasn't a LAN party until you spent hours fiddling with networking settings that you could make heads or tails of, just so computers could talk to each other.
Then Hamachi came along :)
- Tijdreiziger 3y agoOh man, Hamachi somehow felt like borderline malware (I guess being owned by LogMeIn does that to you). But hey, it allowed your friend who had a good rig but didn’t know the first thing about networking to host a Minecraft server. :)
- donatj 3y agoIt was good before the LogMeIn acquisition. I think most people promptly stopped using it when that happened.
- Tijdreiziger 3y agoAround 10 years ago, I think there weren’t any other popular options despite its shadiness (well, either that or we didn’t know any better as teenagers). Of course nowadays, there are multiple good options.