[Cuban_Dota]

Please can someone explain the differences of setting the sv_lan 0 or sv_lan 1, other than the obvious ones(sever lan or server online with the auth differences)
thxxx

[DarkDeviL]

Well, what other differences would you expect?

The server is (as you say, obviously) only available to your local network (= 1), or to all on the Internet (= 0). Besides that, I highly doubt there any other differences at all.