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Sweeet, but it wont really be running until next week, because I'm leaving on Friday and will be gone until monday.

yeah cool. then all we need is the IP

My copy is almost under the tree, so I'll jump on in just a few days

I concur.

I can try to run it dedicated, but I'm not sure what implications that has.  Will it slow down my machine hugely?  If not, then I can do that, but for now it's only running when I'm playing, which will be on and off the the next while, that being until monday.

Can I really leave my computer on for...  4 days unattended?  I mean I guess I could, but it would be weird.  Leaving it open for so long isn't inviting hackers or anything?

That's the thing, I'm a complete newb at this.  I can set it up, but how can I make someone the admin?  How do they log in?  I'm willing to make my christmas (holiday) present to the [MA]Halo community to set up and run a server while I'm gone, but I just need a pretty much total walkthrough doing it.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Last I heard, the only dedicated server available is for Windows, and it's not included with the game (you have to download it separately).

yeah, and if it's anything like medal of honor (which i still don't think the dedicated server option works properly), there might not ever be a mac dedicated halo 

well, assuming you had both a laptop with a good processor and a dedicated halo server, you could run it on that... it wouldn't take much power at all, at least compared to a tower.

or, as was suggested earlier, we could all pool money together to buy a server from a hosting company.

no. a dedicated server runs much the same as a non-dedicated server (the type you start in game), only you can't play. there's no gui for you, only a console with game messages and whatnot, thus requiring much less system resources and, assuming you have the bandwidth, much faster than a non-dedicated server.

although interestingly, one of my buddies had a dedicated mohaa server on his pc, and then proceeded to use mohaa to connect to and play on his own dedicated server... weird.

feel free to correct me if i'm slightly innacurate or just plain wrong about stuff, or if i left something out.

i don't know what you're talking about ::rifles through shibbysan's stuff::

it's not like i reply within minutes to your replies, which are minutes behind mine...

in all seriousness, i'm just bored and recieving email notifications every couple of minutes, so i reply to them. and you must be too, else it is YOU stalking ME 

nuh uh! i stole it fair and square!

...erm, i BOUGHT it. yeah.

time to go back to my legendary halo experience... those marines are SO friggin' worthless. at least they draw fire away from me 

hmm i can't connect using ip or see your server.  is it on now?  if so, perhaps there is something wrong on my end.  OR, looking at your ip that looks like the local ip for your mac.  if i remember correctly you said you were on an airport network?  well i have a basestation too and i know it always takes 10.0.1.1 and then dishes out accordingly the first computer that connects gets 10.0.1.2  the ip you gave.  that isn't gonna work for people outside your network.  in halo you need to put in the ip of your basestation (which you can find using the airport admin utility) followed by :2302     also, make sure you map that port to your computers local ip using the aiport admin utility as well.  i know this as ive hosted a few ghost recon games and went through this problem.   

but then again, i could be completely wrong.  however i feel somewhat confident in my beliefs here.