Loading…
19
Dropped $85 on a Halo 2 LAN adapter and it resurrected our whole clan
Last month I bought one of those old Xbox LAN adapters off eBay, the official one with the two ethernet ports, for $85. Our group of 6 kept getting booted from system link matches because of lag, so I figured it was worth a shot. Plugged it in, set up a 4v4 in a basement in Akron, and it ran like butter. No disconnects for 3 straight hours. Now we're talking about doing a monthly LAN instead of online only. Has anyone else found that spending on hardware is the only way to keep these old games alive, or do you just stick with what you got?
1 comments
Log in to join the discussion
Log In1 Comment
chen.phoenix1mo ago
Was it worth every penny though? I had a similar thing happen with our Halo 3 squad back in the day. We kept getting booted from lobby chat and matches, so I grabbed a cheap network switch off Amazon, not even the official one, just some basic 8 port thing. It fixed the lag almost overnight. We went from barely finishing a game to hosting full 16 player custom games without a single freeze. I think the real problem is that newer routers hate old consoles, they don't handle the connection the same way. So yeah, sometimes dropping cash on a dumb little box is the only thing that keeps the crew together. You got yourself a good deal if it keeps the clan rolling.
1