EGN
From EGN Wiki
EGN is a computer games community or Games network, operated and owned by volunteers, and sponsored by the ISP, EFTel. EGN runs a range of public and private games servers in both Perth, Western Australia, and Melbourne, Victoria. EGN also hosts a LAN gathering every 3 months in Perth.
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Services
- Public and Private, Games, Voice and File Servers in Australia.
- Website Hosting - for clans, communities.
- Radio Relays - relay of free online high quality radio station streams.
- Broadband - good value, high speed ADSL plans designed for gamers and broadband enthusiasts.
- Discussion Forums - community discussion on various topics, mainly around games, etc.
- Wiki - collaborative documentation project regarding computer games and computer & network technology in Australia.
Partners & Sponsors
EGN also relies on a number of third parties in making the games network possible, these are listed below:
- EFTel Communications - EFTel is EGN's sole provider of bandwidth and power for our servers.
- Altech Computers - EGN is a registered reseller of the wholesale computer Distributor Altech. This is where we source most of our server hardware from. Altech also sponsor the EGN Lan events.
- Pragmatic - Pragmatic manage the Honor and statistics services for the America's Army game. EGN is an official service provider for Pragmatic manage the Honor services in Australia.
- Steam - Steam is a content delivery system created by Valve Software. EGN is an official Steam Content Service Provider, check our content server status from the Steam Content Stats page.
- Anyware Computer Accessories - Anyware are a wholesale distributor for computer and electronic accessories. Anyware Computer Accessories are our primary sponsor for the EGN LAN events.
If you are interested in supporting EGN Australia, please get in contact with us.
Management
EGN Australia is owned, and operated by a small set of Management admins. This includes:
- John Ryan: owner of the business and server infrastructure,
- Alex Bergin (optik): server administrator, website developer and Director,
- Mitch Manning (Arbitrator): News Editor/File Database Admin/PR,
- Baden McDonough (Bounty): HR and Ban Manager,
- Ryan Johnson (Serpent): Public Server Administrator.
EGN also relies on a number of volunteers to moderate our public game servers (in-game), and forums. To see a list of these people, please visit the Staff Listing page.
If you are interested in contacting the EGN Management Admins, please contact us using the Contact Us form or alternatively email us on: supportATegnDOTcomDOTau.
Previous Contributions
In the process of EGN becoming what it is today, there have been a number of other noteworthy contributors to the project. These include:
- Matt Welch: provided a foundation for a community operated games network in 2000.
- Kingsley Faulkner: (Internal Applications at EFTel): ambassador of EGN to EFTel and provided guidance with operational aspects of EGN. Kingsley ls a keen gamer and regularly attends the EGN LAN events.
- Robert Pipan: original administrator of the Datafast games network, Robert helped us migrate the Datafast games network across in 2003.
- Xavier Amella: assisted with earlier versions of 2003 website and keeps a close eye on the developments of EGN, providing assistance where possible.
- Rick Swancott (EFTel Marketing Manager): ambassador of EGN to EFTel, and worked with us to produce the EGN Broadband Plans.
EGN is extremely grateful to all of these people and the countless number of other volunteers who've contributed to EGN over the years.
History
The administrators of EGN, specifically Alex Bergin, have been involved in games network management since May 2000, when Q-Net Games was formed. Q-Net Games was a small (but decent at the time) games network, which ran 3 CS Beta Servers in Nedlands, WA, on a Pentium 3 - 600mhz, 128 MB Ram.
A screenshot of our website at the time can be seen to the right - this version of the website was a static/graphic orientated site, using the infamous Dreamweaver application. Never would we do this again 
An archive of the 2000 site can be found over on web.archive.org, as well as the 2001 site which can also be found over on web.archive.org.
In January 2001, Q-Net, SpaceNet, Internet Express, and a number of other Western Australian ISP's, joined together to form EFTel. Since Q-Net Games was the only one of these that had a games network, their games network became 'EFTel Games'.
In July 2002, John Ryan, being involved with another Western Australian games network AXG, donated two high quality servers to 'EFTel Games'. From here on, John Ryan and Alex Bergin worked together to setup more servers to meet growing demand. An archive of the site for this time, can be found over on web.archive.org.
In May 2004, John Ryan, registered the EGN Australia business name, in preparation for EGN to begin offering rentable games servers.
In September 2005, EGN expanded to the East coast, and set up servers in Melbourne, Victoria. This saw the games network double in size!
During 2007, a new website was created by Alex Bergin, which included a complete re-development of our site design, content, branding, and so on. The site went live on June 5th 2007.
Related Links
- EGN Code of Conduct
- EGN PUG Servers: CSWA and CSSWA
- Sites hosted by EGN
- Folding@Home
- EGN Email
- EGN Steam Community - msg User:Optik to receive an invite to join.
