A really noobish question, but here goes...

[bmach]

Here's the scoop: I've got fitzquake on a USB stick. On Thursday I plan on passing that around to some classmates at college and having a big LAN on the campus' wifi during the break. The problem is, the player limit is at 4 and I don't know how to increase it. I want it to be at 8 at least. Commands are something I've just gotten the hang of, so I don't know too much about them.

Can anyone help me out and give me some insight as to how to set up a proper LAN for Thursday?

[PapaSmurf]

-listen 8

put that in your command line when you start up quake. this makes a listen (local) server on your machine with max players set at 8.

[bmach]

How do you know when your server is allowing that many people?

[cinsere]

as long as you do what papa said it should be set to 8 players max.... why would you need to check it?

[Baker]

You can check it by typing maxplayers in the console, or type status in the console and it should say the number of players supported.

Use the -listen parameter like mentioned above.