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TIP: In my googling, I found this page to be GREAT on some extra (albeit advanced) configuration items for Borderlands. You dont need this page to make lan work, but you might like some of the hidden configurations that are basic to most games these days: I recently got 2 copies of the borderlands 1 + 2 from humble bundle, and after playing a little borderlands 1 single player, I knew friends were going to want to play this, so I set about verifying the lan works before buying my other copies. To my surprise, I spent many HOURS (in frustration) trying to figure out how to get local lan play working! That includes googling, reading, testing solutions from others that did not help me at all. (clue: it wasn't my firewall, my nic card or protocol order, and forcebindip also did not help me at all). But finally, I was able to piece together the best parts of some of my research, and found the solution! So just a few minutes ago I figured out how to do it and felt the need to share it with the world so that others could benefit more quickly.

Most other games with LAN play are much more intuitive: you start up all your games, and then someone hosts a game, others see the host's game, and they join it. But not Borderlands!:-/ I'm typing out some extra details here in case this does not solve your specific problem, so that you know what it should be like when it does work. (This was part of my difficulty - not knowing what it should look like when it does work) Here's the background: I have two steam copies of borderlands and a simple home lan / nat router configuration. Here's my instructions that worked for me: Make sure all copies are steam updated / current. I put all steams in offline mode. I disconnect the router from the internet (truly LAN ONLY). Go to the computer that you wish to be the game host.

(Let's say this is local lan ip address of 192.168.1.2). (one way to find your computer's ipv4 address in Windows is to open a command prompt and type 'ipconfig'). Once you know the LAN ip address of the game host machine, then start steam borderlands. In borderlands, on the game host machine, at the main menu, select 'lan game' then 'host public game' and then type in a (arbitrary) host name and press OK. Next you should see the lobby screen and see your character in the top slot of the 4 available player slots. Wait there for others to show up. On the (guest) machines that you wish to join the game that the host is serving, you have to create a special icon that specifies the ip address of the server to the borderlands executable.