# How exactly do I set up Swarm on a network?

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**Category:** Multiplayer & Networking\
**Tags:** Networking, swarm-agent, build, unreal-engine, Lighting, UE4, question\
**Created:** [May 9, 2016, 4:23am UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/how-exactly-do-i-set-up-swarm-on-a-network/356873 "2016-05-09T04:23:50Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 9, 2016, 4:23am UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/how-exactly-do-i-set-up-swarm-on-a-network/356873/1 "2016-05-09T04:23:50Z")

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I’m trying to make a small apartment for ArchViz. Just 5 rooms. While building lighting it’s taking me 2 hours to reach 2.5% and it gets stuck there forever. Someone suggested network building using swarm coordinator. I simply can’t find proper instructions for that. Here’s what I’ve done till now:

- Copied the entire DotNET folder from binaries to my second PC
- Installed the pre requisites on PC#2.
- Given a common agent group name on both PCs.
- Allowed the other PC on this one in AllowedRemoteAgentNames
- Started SwarmCoordinator.exe on PC#2 (Which does not have UE4 installed)
- Set CoordinatorRemotingHost in swarmagent on both PCs.
- AvoidLocalExecution and EnableStandaloneMode are False on both PCs
- Successfully pinged the coordinator and agents on both PCs.
- Tried to build lighting… But it gave the job to the local swarm agent only! the other agent was idle throughout
- I checked my network and tried again…same result
- I changed group names, agent names and tried lots of settings… still no difference.
- I restarted all agents in the coordinator before every build… the agent logs said restart for non-published agents ignored
- Also when I ping the agents, the log says there’s some IP problem every time

How do I fix this!? There isn’t any proper documentation for swarm  
Please help!! ☹

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**Post date:** [May 13, 2016, 7:50pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/how-exactly-do-i-set-up-swarm-on-a-network/356873/2 "2016-05-13T19:50:13Z")

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Hello pmathur,

I’m not familiar with using Swarm myself but maybe these two resources could help you.

The first is an answerhub where one of our developers answered a question about how to use swarm with quite a bit of detail: [Swarm - What is it and how to use it? - Platform & Builds - Epic Developer Community Forums](https://answers.unrealengine.com/questions/27550/swarm-what-is-it-and-how-to-use-it.html)

The second is a troubleshooting guide set up by a co-worker on how to fix a lot of common problems with SwarmAgent:

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Hope this helps!