Internet Connection
Lesix Games needs an internet connection on the device running the display and the device running your controls. It does not need a fast one.
Bandwidth
Section titled “Bandwidth”The platform sends small amounts of text back and forth — questions, answers, scores. There’s no video streaming and no large file transfer.
Any connection that can comfortably load a normal website will run a game. Classroom wifi, a phone hotspot, or a hotel connection are all sufficient.
Reliability Matters More Than Speed
Section titled “Reliability Matters More Than Speed”A slow but steady connection runs a game fine. A fast connection that drops every few minutes causes visible problems, because the display stops updating when it loses connection.
If your room has known-flaky wifi, a wired connection for the projector machine is worth the trouble.
What Happens When Connection Drops
Section titled “What Happens When Connection Drops”On the display screen: it stops updating. It keeps showing whatever was last received. Your clicks on the control screen won’t appear.
On your control screen: actions may fail to save.
On student phones (Pollster): votes won’t submit.
None of this loses your game. State lives with the game, not the screen. When connection returns, refreshing the display picks up the current state exactly.
Recovering
Section titled “Recovering”If the display freezes mid-session, refresh it. It reconnects and shows where the game actually is. You don’t lose progress, and you don’t restart.
This is safe to do at any point. It takes a few seconds.
Captive Portals
Section titled “Captive Portals”Guest wifi at hotels, conference centres, and some campuses requires accepting terms on a login page before traffic passes.
Do this before class on every device that matters — your machine and the projector machine. A device that hasn’t cleared the portal looks connected but can’t reach anything.
For Pollster, students hit the same issue. If scans aren’t registering votes, have them open any website first to trigger the portal.
Teaching Over Video Conference
Section titled “Teaching Over Video Conference”Video conferencing uses far more bandwidth than Lesix Games does. If your conference call is stable, the game will be fine.
Share only the display tab, not your whole screen. See Display Mode.
Working Offline
Section titled “Working Offline”There’s no offline mode. The platform requires a connection.
If you’re teaching somewhere with genuinely unreliable internet, have a fallback — printed questions, or a phone hotspot as backup.
Next Steps
Section titled “Next Steps”- Sync Issues — when screens fall out of step
- Real-Time Synchronization — how the connection works
- Game Not Loading — when a page won’t open at all