Old School LAN party

[Borisdollar]

At least I think thats what its called... a LAN party.

The question is, is it possible?

There are 3 of us in one room (tomorrow). 3 PS3's, 3 copies of GT5, 3 TV's, 3 wheels, a router... but no internet connection. Is it possible therefore to connect the 3 together and race against each other?

Obviously the world has moved forward with online play, but where we are going to do this has no internet. Would be a shame if its not possible.

What I'm worried about is that we would need to be logged into our PSN's in order for this to work. If we had the internet connection, then I can see no reason why we couldnt all connect to the servers through the same router, sign into PSN, and off we go. But we dont have that luxury.

So any ideas?

 

[Jesus]

You need to be signed in to race online together and I dont think GT5 has the LAN option.

 

[Borisdollar]

Damn. Thats going to cause some problems then!

 

[Ya Pops]

Sucks fuzzy balls eh..? I was looking forward to LAN a hell of a lot too.
Same thing happened with FM3. The previous game had LAN, but does the latest and greatest? Nope...

 

[JJ72]

We just plug 4 PS3 into the same router and all go online, the lag was fine, we did have a ISP with 15m/s upload though. I dunno why are they pulling out LAN functionality, M$ might be worried that you get any form of online play without a gold XBL account, but what does Sony get out of this?

 

[Bobtehblob]

LAN is becoming a thing of the past I think. Some game's like Black Ops have been forced to implement LAN for MLG events, but other then that they are becoming fewer and farther between.

 

[Borisdollar]

Thanks for all the answers guys. Sorry that they are not the answers I was looking for! :-(

 

[Chqr]

Ya, no LAN on GT5.

Would recommend COD5 on LAN, really good fun.

 

[the Interceptor]

This might be worth a read for you: https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/showthread.php?t=162480

functioning workaround for the absent LAN mode

Thanks to [PfE] Bugfixer, derdoc and several other members of the German GTRP forum, we have confirmation you can still hold LAN parties with GT5. A lot of people have criticized - and rightly so - that there is no more option for local area network play in GT5. However, there now is a proven way how to play in LAN mode.

What you need is a router with a working internet connection and enough slots for PS3s. Derdoc managed to create an absolutely lag-free network of 13 PS3s. Here's how to do it:

One PS3 acts as a host console. On this PS3, a game lobby is being opened. It can be a closed lobby as well as an open one, with the open one having the advantage that you can set a maximum number of players, and that you can kick uninvited players. The lobby automatically gets a lobby number from the GT5 game servers.

Every player in the LAN network then enters the online mode in his game and puts in the lobby number (which is a number code of 5 times 4 digits) to join the lobby. That's it!

So here's the clue:
The internet connection is only necessary for hosting the race as such. All the data traffic between the consoles while playing is being exchanged in the local network only, because for the game servers they all share the same IP. This means that there will be almost no data traffic from or to the internet, so the speed or the ping of the internet connection is more or less irrelevant. The held event with 13 consoles was done with a standard 6Mbit DSL connection. It is well possible that this also works with slower connections, maybe even mobile ones provided by a laptop or a mobile phone.

It is however vital that not one player joins the game externally. This would mean that all the data has to be streamed through the internet connection to and from that player, which will likely compromise the whole system. Keep it LAN only, and you're good to go!