Thread: Running FG from hotel
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September 10th, 2018, 14:06 #1
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Running FG from hotel
I'm going to be running tomorrow night's game from a hotel. Anybody got any advice on what to expect and if there's any tricks that anybody knows to make it run smooth? Thinking about buying a Wi-Fi booster and seeing if I can figure out a way to jury-rig it to the hotel's internet. Anybody ever do that before?
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September 10th, 2018, 14:10 #2
I've run from a hotel once. All dependent on how good the wifi is. I even played using my hotspot puck once and it was ok. Big thing is port forwarding. I'm assuming you already have that figured out? You won't be able to access the router at the hotel, so the only way you will be able to host is using one of the port-forwarding alternatives (e.g. Hamachi, Zero-Tier, PureVPN, etc..).
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September 10th, 2018, 14:42 #3
Gwydion is right in everything he says.
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September 10th, 2018, 16:22 #4
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Definitely! I'm planning on arriving about 3 hours early. Soon as I can get checked in, I'm going to dive into the software.
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September 10th, 2018, 18:27 #5
I would suggest getting with one of your players before the session and having them connect and see how it performs with them. That will give you a chance to troubleshoot any issues before the entire group connects.
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September 10th, 2018, 22:41 #6
I used to do it regularly.
Depending on the hotel, pay attention when you log into their network. Some of them allow you to click an option to enable a Private IP. If that's available, select it and then you will usually have port forward enabled (via UPnP?).
BUT, plan on a VPN solution, I used to use Hamachi. But I got all my players setup before I started at the hotels. We would then just use it when needed.
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September 15th, 2018, 08:05 #7
I regularly host games from hotels and the challenge is only one: good bandwidth. Once I was in a hotel that had internet so bad that I used by 4G and internet sharing from the phone.
The simple solutions are always the best. For me this is tunneling the FG traffic via port redirection over SSH through cloud server in Azure.The past is a rudder to guide us, not an anchor to hold us back.
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September 15th, 2018, 12:30 #8
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September 15th, 2018, 13:59 #9
I have used PureVPN (with the dedicated IO option) for years to run games from a hotel. Just did it this week from Toronto. It is the quickest and simplest to use. There are other free options that take a little more work but are doable.
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September 15th, 2018, 14:25 #10
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I could not get PureVPN to forward the port. Should it have worked if I had used a dedicated IO as well?
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