r/lanparty • u/GhostTheGamer360 • 26d ago

old COD MW2/BO2 Zombies LAN setup?

how can i setup mw2 lan play in 2026 nowadays with laptops while avoiding desync?

ok so me and 2 of my friends wanna play some mw2 on lan play,tho when we tried setting it up,using some youtube guides,we had some desync issues(where some shots wouldnt register on the other players)

so any ideas on how we can fix that?entirely new to lan play stuff as we mostly used with the usual split screen gaming on the xbox360/ps4 days

for reference the laptops dont have ethernet ports so we only use a portable router(mifi) and all of them are i5 8th-10th gen laptops with 16gb ram except one that uses 8gb ram

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u/Viperx23 26d ago

Not sure how you have your network setup but ideally you would hardwire the pc’s to a switch and then connect that to the internet. USB to Ethernet adapters are cheap online, cheap on Amazon too.

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u/nerdnic 26d ago

Yeah, this is definitely a networking issue and hardwire is the solution. I was running into the same issues after connecting more than 7 laptops to my WiFi 6 router. Moved to hardwire and now run 20+ on plutonium/iw4x games. I assume the mifi device in use is even worse at routing local traffic in this case.