Dreamhack 2001

flagg writes: "One of the world's largest LAN-partys is taking place in this very moment, Dreamhack 2001 in Jonkoping, Sweden. Take a look on this picture and ask yourself a question: Do I wanna be there?"

Higher resolution image

[Tack]

A higher resolution version of that picture is available here [dreamhack.org]. There's probably around 1000 people in that one picture. Wow.

Jason.

excite@home plug time confirmed.

[Anonymous Coward]

I just got an e-mail from NOC@ex... regarding the scheduled shutdown of service for excite@home customers (well when they refer to customers, they mean the IP's -- of whom real people are customers, so it means you too).

Excite@Home is now projecting the shutdown time to begin at sunrise (You got to love these post 911 time frames), on Dec 1 2001.

The shutdown would not be a complete shutdown. IP would be routed through a few routers that are still in place. What this means is that you'd probably be able to use the Internet still on your cable modem (unless your ISP shuts it down through pity). One good thing about this is that there would be enough bandwidth (about the speed of a 14.4 modem for everyone), for you to read mail and do basic browsing.

Excite also mentions how any reversal of this shutdown would take a month to process (FSCK, I guess they have a lot of red-tape, then again ATT holds a stake in them).

Later.

D.

a million dorks

[Anonymous Coward]

wow, i've never seen a bigger collection of dorks in my life. one high school football player could physically terrorize the entire lot of 'em while one high school cheerleader could emotionally destroy all of them.

geeks!

Some facts...

[Anonymous Coward]

Link: 1gbit/s to EBONE with the help from Arrowhead (http://dreamhack.swm.pp.se/)
98% boys, 2% girls ;)
40km (we are in sweeden you know ;) TP-cabels
2km tables

(Dreamhack is greate, but The Gathering in Norway is way better. (and even larger))

--
Quai

Re:microsoft sponsoring dreamhack 2001?

[Anonymous Coward]

Asus is the main sponsor.
Sponsor list [dreamhack.org]

Dreamhack Net Access

[Anonymous Coward]

i just stumbled across this [swm.pp.se] during my usually irc window flipping. Its the dreamhack's 1GB fibre internet connection provided by Arrowhead [arrowhead.dk] broadband

tsk tsk tsk, and they cant even max it out ;)

LAN is when you do not cross a road. (OT)

[maxwells_deamon]

In the networking class I took in the 80's at IBM they defined a LAN as a network where you did not have to use a common carrier for the physical layer.

If had to cross a road/right of way, you had to use some sort of common carrier (like a phone company) you were then subject to regulations and speed limits :-(

The network then became a WAN.

An Inside perspective :-)

[iolaire_in_swe]

Hi all, I'm sitting in the picture that's linked in the little article.. and it's cool. I recently moved to sweden from the UK (where we have nothing on this scale). A little info:

1. We haven't noticed any /. effect.. we've got a 1Gbit uplink here (although how they got that to an exhibition center is beyond me).
2. Wintertime is a GOOD TIME for this sort of thing - it's 27C (80F) here just now. The other big swedish LAN (Remedy) is held in the summer, and it's a real sweatfest by comparison.
3. Yes, there is a bit of a discrepancy in gender... there are about 20 girls here, out of the 4500 people here (luckily I happen to be going out with one of them :-).
4. The most popular game here is Counterstrike, the half-life mod. the main tourney is 5v5, 128(!) teams. Q3 is also popular. There's also a history of demos here, and we've seen (and heard)some very cool stuff on the big screen. Microsoft is also here with some Xboxes - and a competition to win them (played on the machines themselves).
5. You can buy Jolt Cola by the 24 pack slab :] These people know who they are dealing with it seems - very popular. There's also a smattering of hamburger/hot dog/sandwich places around the halls.

All in all, I'm having a fine time - and so are most other people. Apart from some horror stories with DOA machines, it's all going splendidly.

You're all welcome to come say hi on IRC - irc.quakenet.org #dreamhack has about 700 of us.

iolaire (Qnet oper, gamer, blah blah)

Re:So how much power you think they using per minu

[Anonymous Coward]

I am at the party. Momy, I want to go home. It's to big.

The official numbers is 5-6000, we did a quick scan for windowz hosts and found about 3500.
Thier are 4554 seats on the map.

Just a mile or two away from the complex is a power distribution central.

Re:Do I want to be there?

[ardiri]

• Frankly, I don't. For me, the fun of a LAN party is being there pulling an all-nighter with my buddies, spilling drinks, making a mess, watching pr0n, and laughing it up all over the place...

have you ever been to a swedish party? this is pretty much what we do all the time! *g* the scandanavians surely know how to party.. but, unfortunately, wont be any strippers there.. that kinda stuff aint looked upon nicely here (in sweden)..

• Going to these hangar Lans with thousands of people just doesn't have that kind of intimacy... it's more geared toward people that just don't have broadband access and wanna get a couple of days of some lag-free gaming in.

um.. most people in Sweden HAVE decent internet connections. and, if you have ever had gaming parties over the sunet.se backbone - you wont complain about lag :) most people run at least 512kbps from their HOME (either cable or ADSL). i dont have many friends who use dial-up..

and, when ADSL (2.5Mbit) is provide for a measly $25 a month (www.bonet.se)? who would be stupid enough to use a modem?

Re:NOT a lan party you fucks.

[W2k]

It may have been a demo party. Once. Today, those art/animation/demo compos are merely a bit of a distraction from the gaming, although some people (obviously) come for the demos rather than for the gaming. Still, they're quite obviously in minority, and I for one don't care. If they want to spend four days in front of their C compilers, let them.

But hey, do tell me, if we're only supposed to be programming, why do we have a 1 GBIT Internet connection? Why is Microsoft here hosting Counter-Strike servers? Obviously, neither is neccessary for exchanging 64 kBit demos. The DH Crew are the ones organizing, so they decide what kind of party DreamHack is, at least officially. From the looks of things, they don't agree with you.

I don't know if we here at DreamHack have the pleasure of having you among us, but if we do, please stand up on your chair and shout your opinion. There are ~4 999 "gamerlamers" around you, it'll be a blast.

Re:Lets play spot the SPA enforcer

[W2k]

No-one. Using pirated (that's warezed for you l33t people) is not illegal in Sweden.
Distributing or copying copyrighted works is, but if you download it from somewhere, it's the person you copy it from who's commiting a crime.

Mod that up

[autopr0n]

(clickable link, for the lazy) [194.0.250.13] pictures of the setup of the site very cool

MRTG over the Dreamhack internet uplink here

[_GNU_]

http://stat.event.dreamhack.org/ [dreamhack.org]

Quite elite..

Arrowhead in cooperation with Ebone
in combination with a Black Diamond :)

I'm on an ethernet connection in Sweden, 400km or so from Dreamhack, dunno really... Downloading at around 750k/sec from an ftp inside dreamhack... hehe ;)

Hugs
// _GNU_