Topic: LAN Question

[kirby_killer_dedede]

I'm not too sure about what exactly LAN is.  How does it work, what does it do, etc.  I'm planning on getting Mario Kart and 1080, and just maybe Kirby Air Ride, so I need to know.  Thanks!

[SuperLink666]

hook up gamecubes to play on difference tvs local area network not too complicated.

[BlkPaladin]

Here a quick run down on how to use Lan.

First you need the broadband for each of the Gamecubes.
Then you need a hub and a Ethernet or Cat-5 cable for each to run from the gamecube to the switch and you hook them up. That's usally it.

[ExtremeGcube]

could one just use a crossover cable to connect the two gamecubes together.  That is if you just wanted to connect to gamecubes?  If this is that case then the only things you really need are 2 gamecubes, 2 tvs, 2 MKDD, and 1 crossover cable.  

[Hostile Creation]

I highly recommend Kirby Air Ride.  I don't think LAN is particularly good for it (I think 4 players is still the max available, even if you use multiple TVs), but it is a great game.

[joshnickerson]

Hmmm... with Nintendo putting in these LAN capabilities in their in-house games and unofficially encouraging people to use "tunneling" to go online... I wonder if Pokemon Colusseum will use LAN for it's own multi-player portions....

[manunited4eva22]

Well technically it is official, they gave gamespy a gamecube license.

[Boffo]

Yeah, I'm curious also if you need a regular ethernet cable or if you must use a crossover cable to directly connect 2 gamecubes in a LAN. (NO HUB/ROUTER)

Note to Mods:  This has nothing to do with Warp Pipe, this is strictly offline i'm talking about, so please don't close it.

This is a pretty important question and no site has really touched on this.  That's so bizarre.

[Bloodworth]

I think you just use a regular ethernet cable.  I plan on simply unplugging the one from my computer and putting it in the GC.

[cheers69]

yer normal kat5e should be fine  

[KDR_11k]

It works just like a computer: For direct links use Crossover, for a link to a hub use Twisted Pair.

[Plugabugz]

KDR, I believed it was straight for PC-PC and crossover for PC-Hub-PC?

[Myxtika1 Azn]

No, it's crossover for PC-PC

[Uglydot]

Cross-over is from pc to pc, you can also use them to connect a pc to the uplink port of a router, as I am doing at this very moment.  Straight is for pc-hub or pc-router.

[manunited4eva22]

Uglydot is right.

[Plugabugz]

Thanks for clarifying that

[KDR_11k]

Usually crossover cable is black, twisted pair ones are gray.