Information about RF LAN
It is held at:
Cannington Agricultural Halls: Corner Station Steet & Albany Highway, Cannington.
It is right next to the Cannington Greyhounds (If you have been there before)

It costs:
$30.00

Please make an account now
http://www.rflan.org

Once you have done that and are signed in, click this link.
http://www.rflan.org/ref.php
Please post your reference code. I will need this when I organise the table and you will need it to pay the RF account!
More info on this when tickets are on sale.

What do you need to bring to the RF?
Computer, monitor, keyboard, mouse, and its power cords
Non-surge protected power board (like the $2.50 bunnings ones)
You may also bring a surge protector (or surge protected power board) on a trial basis.. but you MUST bring a non-surge protected one as well.
10 meter network cable
Headphones. (No speakers.)
Driver and software cds, game install cds, spare keyboard/mouse/power cables.
Your own food

The awesome thing about the location, is that the shopping centre is 5 minutes down the road and there are lots of food outlets nearby.

What can't you bring?
White goods (bar fridges, freezers, kettles, microwaves, eskies, etc)
Speakers
UPS systems
Alcohol, drugs, firearms or weapons
More than one computer or monitor, including laptops and servers
A monitor bigger than 30"

What does your entry fee entitle you to?
1 Seat,
0.8 meter wide area of desk space,
1 network port and
1 power point.

All the FAQs can be found here
http://www.rflan.org/faq.php

You get limited internet usage.
You can play any games you want.
You don't have to join the tornaments: you can just play against anyone there at the lan.
Tornaments at last RF included Quake 3 arena, Warcraft 3 TFT Melee, CS:S, DoTA, Call of Duty 4, Wii Tennis, TrackMania, Team Fortress 2

If you have read the FAQ, you will have seen that they sell snacks there and they do a pizza pick up thing.

Just thought I'd mention ^^

They also have consoles there as well for you to play
PS3, xbox 360, Nintendo 64 and Wii

And giveaways

Just to repeat, you do NOT need to go into tournaments! You can just play games casually against others at the LAN.

For all games on Steam, they must be fully updated BEFORE you arrive and Steam must be set to offline mode. You will use all your internet usage if you don't do this!

I'd love to come. Slight problem. I am unable to afford the plane ticket cost for the flight from Sydney to WA. Could you ask them nicely to come to sydney please?

Doesn't Sydney have a big LAN?

You do get to use the internet, but you only have a very limited quota.

So you won't be able to download stuff.
Good for MSN though.

Oh yeah

RF usually sells out every time. We have to be quick if we want to get a spot.

my ref code is 2103martihch

mine is 1907lifesapi

i would love to come buuuuut here are the reasons why i wont come...:
$30 cant be bothered getting
have to bring a computer... with a crap load of accessories.. for 1 or 2 nights
i can just go to our local lan world for $20 with all my fave games already there... and i dont need to bring my own computer...
but yeah if they already had computers and games i'd come....
but yeah.... nty

Ref: 2104bijou1ho

okay my ref code is: 2105orangegu

Now to talk about Trash and Treasure.

Do you have anything that you would like to just give away? The Trash and Treasure part of the day allows you to pick up something really cool or get rid of something you don't need any more.

You can't throw away junk.

As said by one of the admins, Trent
"Easy examples could be computer hardware, but it doesn't have to be.. some stuff I've seen go in the past is RAM, dialup modems, old laptops, 15" monitors, toy cars, you name it.

Note that this is NOT a dumping ground, if your item isn't taken, you get it back! And don't bring things that no one will actually use or we may accidentally throw them at you. Please also make sure the item is owned by you or you have the owner (i.e. your parents!) permission to give it away!"

They also like to throw cheeseburgers.

I suggest you also sign up to their forum and have a read.
If I find something interesting or of importance, I will post it here.

KEEP YOUR MOBILE PHONES IN YOUR POCKET!
Several people got their phones stolen at the last RF

Apparently they have special guests too. Like the Red Bull girls...if they show up, their will be real blood spilt. Not just the stuff in games

THE RFLAN SIGNUPS ARE NOW CLOSED UNTIL FURHTER NOTICE, THERE ARE AVAILABLE POSITIONS SPECIALLY FOR SPECTRUM USERS ON THE GRASS. YOU ARE PROBABLY THINKING 'I WILL BE COLD' HOWEVER WE AT RFLAN BELIEVE THAT SPECTRUM USERS EMIT HEAT FROM UNKNOWN AREAS ON THE BODY. THIS WILL KEEP YOU AND YOUR FELLOW SPECTRUMERS WARM AND COSY, EXCEPT FOR EMILY LLOYD. SHE HAS NO SPECIAL WARM PLACE. AT THE END OF THE DAY, WE WILL BE CLOSING ALL CONNECTIONS TO OUR HUB FROM THE GRASS AREA. THIS WILL BE 1 HOUR AFTER YOU HAVE ENTERED THE COMPLEX. YOU ARE FREE TO ROAM THE PADDOCK BUT NOT ALLOWED TO ENTER THE VENUE. UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES THAT YOU ARE ALLOWED TO ENTER THE COMPLEX TO USE THE RESTROOMS, YOU WILL BE PROVIDED WITH EXACTLY ONE SHOVEL AND SOME RECYCLED TOILET PAPER USED FROM PREVIOUS RFLAN EVENTS. WE HOPE YOU HAVE A PLEASANT RFLAN EXPERIENCE, HOWEVER WE WILL NOT CARE IF YOU DO ANYWAY.

KIND REGARDS

RFLAN MANAGEMENT

hey progin I remember you, troll harder

you should remember me...

yes I do, I believe I said that already
hows it going? long time no see
coming to the RF Lan with us?

Yeah I know you sed it
Im alright, yourself? and Yes I go to every RF lol thats why Emily wants to go this time, because I always say its good.

yeah I'm pretty good

ah yes of course, that does make sense yeah, seems I'll be coming to this one with spectrum peeps, should be good

Yet he won't be going WITH us. He will be going with his group of friends.

Download this program for RFLAN: http://dcplusplus.sourceforge.net/ Ill explain why you need it later.

James and I were talking about how we are going to get everyone there (and their computers)

We were thinking

James will pick up Tizzy, then go to Mike's house.

Martin will pick up John and I and meet at Mike's house.

Then we go together to the RF.

The RF opens at 10am.

I think we should leave Mike's by 9.30am.
(only if that is ok with you Mika ^^)

What do you guys think?

Yeah that works really well for me, I was going to work out how to get down on the buses n stuff but no that would be really good

Yeah sounds good, we'll do that