Wow, congrats Jon, a nice addition from what I hear! (never tried it but it seems to get a lot of love)

Last Sunday two of the guys from Nucor were over at a pin party in Dearborn Michigan.  They gave out a couple of plaques to some of the guys that were test guinea pigs for the nucor.  I should of bought one from Clay a couple of years ago.  I knew about nucor but was not sure it was going to fly and was worried about the one part that was problamatic and was around $600 to replace (sorry I forget what it was called, crystal something maybe).  Anyways the nucor is nice with the jukebox option etc.
Hope it works out with the shipping etc.

Quoted from Menace

Not sure how difficult it'll be to find the NIC these days at a reasonable price.

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I have a couple extras.

Thing is they are computer pulls and are untested. I plugged one of the three in my machine and it worked. I suspect the other two are probably the same.

Your going to need more ram as well.

I wish they would fix the code so you wouldn't require the router. They wrote it to only allow for one hop before the packet gets killed. Going over the internet requires several hops. The code was written thinking of two machines co-located. All the router does is modify the packet to last for several hops. Long way around a solution in this case.

Thanks necro, Steph offered to sell me one too. Not so hard to find afterall!

Quoted from jonny_eh

Thanks necro, Steph offered to sell me one too. Not so hard to find afterall!

Ha ha. Steph and I got them at the same time. Ask him about it.

You hit up the two guys that have them.

Good thing we were looking after the guys in Canada. When I was looking for them the well was pretty dry.

We should run our own MAACA pin2k tournament server!

Quoted from necro_nemesis

Ha ha. Steph and I got them at the same time. Ask him about it.

True enough...  

I had already  found a couple beforehand though,
but I also got a few extras from the same lot as you
after you graciously offered to split your find if you could use my US PO Box
because the seller wouldn't ship to Canada  !      

That PO Box has paid for itself many times over !

Cheers,
Steph

Quoted from jonny_eh

We should run our own MAACA pin2k tournament server!

Well I think you might be the second guy then up and running on MAACA if you get it going.

Getting all the info you need to get it running right can be a bit of a challenge with Jim. All I can say is start with the latest software and work your way back. You need a router that has full iptables support. Even though DD-WRT will show iptables support on other models it isn't full support in some cases and the command you need isn't supported on the smaller rom flash size versions (compact). If you use the Linux version of router he states you'll be alright with his flash. Don't try and use his flash on any other router than that exact version, otherwise your on your own to figure out how to make your router work. Not bad but the main thing is make sure it has the full iptables support before starting. The other thing is for whatever reason he uses a Linux router protocol in his setup. Linksys does not default to this network config. I changed it all around to conform to my home network rather than going with his IP address setup. It just seemed more logical to me. Also watch where your getting your DNS from. "tracert" can be your friend when trying to sort it out.

Have fun! Had I had an explanation of why things needed to be configured a certain way at the onset I would have cut my time to 1/10th. Just being told do this and try this didn't make it so easy until I knew why I was doing it after figuring out why it didn't work.

Hope it's updated to 1.5

Mine is still 1.1 - and I have tried everything...  I even was lent an older laptop since mine kept saying "no connection to Com 1".

So I tried the old computer that runs on COM 1.... we first tried it in my friends RFM game, and it worked at his place.

so when I hooked it to my RFM - again, no connection to COM 1.   I beleive the problem lies with my RFM machine?  perhaps a bad serial wire (internal)?  Has anyone come across this problem before?

Thanks.

Fun stuff.

I fortunately had mine updated in the first go.  No problems (other than the laptop started to run out of power).  It seemed rather simple if you are computer savy.

Now I just need to find some (extra) free time to install the network tournament.

Quoted from TGlover

Hope it's updated to 1.5

You still need to up it to what he calls 1.8 for you to get full functionality with the system.

Necro, I'll probably be needed to pick your brain if I decide to go for it. I do in fact have the WRT54GL router with the full dd-wrt (been using it for a couple years). I'm a bit rusty with iptables but I like to consider myself technically savvy, I am a linux developer afterall.

To do the online stuff, I need this v1.8 right? Where can I find it?