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Large minecraft server - How much bandwidth? LAN?

BigRedBigRed Seattle, WARegistered User regular
edited January 2011 in Games and Technology
As the title says, im doing some research on this for *SOMETHING* :wink:

I don't play the game so I am calling on some help to acquire some info.

Does minecraft support pure LAN mode? (no Internet traffic)

Does anyone here run a large Internet server? How many people are on it and how much bandwidth does it use?

Thanks :D

<MoeFwacky> besides, BigRed-Worky is right
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  • FremFrem Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    The Minecraft client can be played offline as long as the game has been connected to the internet and authenticated once. Unless that's changed in the past few months.

    Notch added an offline mode to the server in August. Server versions >= 0.1.1 should work.
    The server can now be started in either online/secure mode or offline/insecure mode. A secure server requires all connecting players to first authenticate on www.minecraft.net, then checks that the authentication matches, before letting the player in. A server running in offline mode won’t do any such checks, nor will it ask the client to authenticate, but you can’t be sure that people who connect really are who they claim they are. Offline mode is meant for LAN plan where you know the people connecting to the server.

    So it sounds like if you're running the server in insecure mode, you'll have a harder time dealing with trolls.

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