Networking for E-sports Cafe

[YellowFlash]

I am planning to open a gaming cafe in India for esports with 20 ~ 25 PC and 10 consoles ( Xbox + PS4). What should I learn about networking for starting the cafe? 

[RAM555789]

Security is one of the big things you need to worry about. What kind of user accounts you'll set up, the limitations and stuff, how are you going to let people access their games but not mess with important settings or do potentially malicious things. Your going to have to put certain limitations on what users can do or you would end up with idiots downloading malicious softwares, running hacks in games, ect. 

[FastRDust]

3 minutes ago, RAM555789 said:

Security is one of the big things you need to worry about. What kind of user accounts you'll set up, the limitations and stuff, how are you going to let people access their games but not mess with important settings or do potentially malicious things. Your going to have to put certain limitations on what users can do or you would end up with idiots downloading malicious softwares, running hacks in games, ect. 

Exactly.

Also make sure that you have games with a proper licence to use them in this fasion.

Commercial Licensing should be the term, also for free to play games such as Fortnite you should lookup the Terms of use.

 

Just making sure you don't get sued.

[RAM555789]

4 minutes ago, FastRDust said:

Exactly.

Also make sure that you have games with a proper licence to use them in this fasion.

Commercial Licensing should be the term, also for free to play games such as Fortnite you should lookup the Terms of use.

 

Just making sure you don't get sued.

Oh yeah that's another big thing, all the fine print you'll need to go over and stuff to make sure you, and your customers are not doing anything illegal.

[YellowFlash]

9 minutes ago, RAM555789 said:

Security is one of the big things you need to worry about. What kind of user accounts you'll set up, the limitations and stuff, how are you going to let people access their games but not mess with important settings or do potentially malicious things. Your going to have to put certain limitations on what users can do or you would end up with idiots downloading malicious softwares, running hacks in games, ect. 

I am planning to configure limited access for users. Customer’s logging in to system will have limited access to downloading and saving. I will also look for Cyber Cafe management softwares which can aid me in this aspect.

[YellowFlash]

1 minute ago, RAM555789 said:

Oh yeah that's another big thing, all the fine print you'll need to go over and stuff to make sure you, and your customers are not doing anything illegal.

I will be looking for steam cafe program for purchasing gaming licenses 

[RAM555789]

1 minute ago, YellowFlash said:

I am planning to configure limited access for users. Customer’s logging in to system will have limited access to downloading and saving. I will also look for Cyber Cafe management softwares which can aid me in this aspect.

It might be something where you have steam pre-installed into system and people are free to log in and download whatever game they want to steam, and maybe install some other big things like, discord, TeamSpeak, ect.

[FastRDust]

11 minutes ago, RAM555789 said:

Oh yeah that's another big thing, all the fine print you'll need to go over and stuff to make sure you, and your customers are not doing anything illegal.

This should get you on the right track:

https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/sitelicense

[YellowFlash]

Can I get some help with networking infrastructure requirements I need to learn about to setup the cafe.

[FastRDust]

3 hours ago, YellowFlash said:

Can I get some help with networking infrastructure requirements I need to learn about to setup the cafe.

In this type of situation I'd highly recommend setting up a domain environment. This way you can manage user account access and controls for all of your computers from one central domain controller computer. This means you can also configure features such as session time limits or specific login times, access control restriction (such as disabling access to Control Panel options) and you can further segment access to information in your network.

You also need to consider building separate VLANs if you are using business computer systems on the same network as your public computers. This is a big issue. You don't want your customers being able to come hop on one of your public computers and have open access to all of your business network and data.

 

In short:

A router with VLAN support

Switches with VLAN support.

Preferably redundant internet connection.

Server with Active Directory ( for user accounts)

POS system with account activation ( to make you life easier)

Backup system for all the Financial data

Edited September 11, 2018 by FastRDust
Thank you @Alex Atkin UK

[Alex Atkin UK]

Correction, VLAN support not VPN.   An easy typo to make on autopilot.

[FastRDust]

Just now, Alex Atkin UK said:

Correction, VLAN support not VPN.   An easy typo to make on autopilot.

indeed i have, and corrected it