Spending all day yesterday, the website page has a new addition of How To: Setup a Garage LAN (tekrp.com). This cause a few emotions as it was being built and links were being established. It was like a review of everything I had taught myself and built because my kids asked me to build a Minecraft Server they could both play on. They asked for one that would always be on and for all their friends to be able to connect from all around the world. It actually amazed me that letting friends connect from around the world was the easy part and just required a few open ports and a static IP address of the LAN’s Gateway and Minecraft Server. The real challenge caught me off guard when asked if we could build out the LAN for their friends to bring their own PC’s to the house and play on the Minecraft Server together.
Finding myself introducing myself to Intel, NVidia employees, meeting the smartest of people that work behind the scenes that allow us all to have that great adventure or that team saving play, I decided to enroll to learn everything I could. Sure my goal is to get a kick ass job and make a few bucks, but there is an underlying dream now to build something bigger than the 20 person Garage LAN. I’ve been able to help out building 100 and 500 person LAN Festivals complete with NOC (Network Operation Centers) and want to build my own. Only I want to build it so it is expandable to a 1,000 person LAN Festival. Working on getting that formal education to learn as much as I can, knowing it will be a few years before I can start looking at land to purchase to build out for the TekRP version of the Garage LAN.
I’m kind of excited to see just how far I can get after seeing and hearing from individuals the positive influence and change the Garage LAN has made in their lives. We found out it isn’t about the LAN Center, it’s about the LAN bringing people together.
Originally posted: 9Sept2024
