Host LAN party?

[denestmor3]

Hello guys,

 

I am hosting a LAN party for me and my friends after long year of learning and stress.

 

My question was what would be the best way to provide them with the internet and give them a connection to my network.

 

Our set-up as follows:

 

We have our router which is connected to glass fiber cable with the internet provider,

 

than we have a regular Ethernet CAT5e cable running to switch 1 with has 6 + 1 output, the 6 cables go into a connector in our wall and the cables spread out into all the rooms in our house, the other cable goes into another switch, 2 cables are connected to that switch and also go into our wall and to the rooms,

 

In every room is an Apple airport with provide Wifi, except my room because I have a desktop without wifi.

 

So all the 10 laptops need to connect to the airport in the room next to mine. Because of that there internet becomes a bit slower than it can be, it is still fine but not as good as I want.

 

How can I improve the connection?

 

Is it possible to get one of the switches and put it in my room so they all have an LAN cable

 

 

[denestmor3]

Hello guys,

 

I am hosting a LAN party for me and my friends after long year of learning and stress.

 

My question was what would be the best way to provide them with the internet and give them a connection to my network.

 

Our set-up as follows:

 

We have our router which is connected to glass fiber cable with the internet provider,

 

than we have a regular Ethernet CAT5e cable running to switch 1 with has 6 + 1 output, the 6 cables go into a connector in our wall and the cables spread out into all the rooms in our house, the other cable goes into another switch, 2 cables are connected to that switch and also go into our wall and to the rooms,

 

In every room is an Apple airport with provide Wifi, except my room because I have a desktop without wifi.

 

So all the 10 laptops need to connect to the airport in the room next to mine. Because of that there internet becomes a bit slower than it can be, it is still fine but not as good as I want.

 

How can I improve the connection?

 

Is it possible to get one of the switches and put it in my room so they all have an LAN cable

sorry posted it in wrong category,

Here is the link to the good one: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/29565-host-lan-party/#entry377428