Please forgive the SEO optimized title, but I put together a blog post as a one-stop-shop guide for hosting a small LAN party in your home. I figure that if you are hosting a huge public LAN then you probably know what you are doing, and don't really need a guide. Presumably running smaller parties in your house is the gateway to doing the big ones anyways.

LAN parties are a dying tradition, so I hope that writing down some of what I've learned over the years will inspire others to give hosting a LAN a shot, especially the younger gamers out there. I ran my first LAN ~15 years ago when I was a teenager, and I hope that today's teenagers give LANs a go as well.

You left out the "circumvent copyright protection so your friends can also play the game without buying twenty copies of the game" which takes a considerable amount of time. Of course, I was lanning well before your purported time, so I can understand why you might not have included this part.