hunter00
12-29-01, 10:43 AM
actually this has nothing to do with routers, but i liked the catchy title:D
okay . . . soooooooo . . . i want to start having lan parties at my place (the ones i go to are like an hour away for me and a bunch of other people) so i need to know exactly what to get to set it up. the ones i go to use switches but i dont even know what that means. (i've never been involved in the networking part(the lan part), i just go to play(the party part). I can get a really cheap D-link DE-824TP Ethernet 24-port Hub (24 RJ-45, 1 BNC & 1 AUI) [http://www.dlink.com/../../products/hubs/de824tp/] or at least i think i can get it cheap, i will know for sure in like 8 hours. anyway, is this good for lan gaming/leeching? or should i get these switch thingies (are they cheap?) also, a hub can't share an internet connection can it? is there anything i could hook up with it to share my cable modem (obviously not 24 at a time, but if one person needs internet to dl a driver or something, ya know) can switches? also i know you need to set up ips and stuff, is that networking stuff hard to do with a hub? switches? thanks (obviously i know very little about networking, although i do have a router set up in my house . . .)
okay . . . soooooooo . . . i want to start having lan parties at my place (the ones i go to are like an hour away for me and a bunch of other people) so i need to know exactly what to get to set it up. the ones i go to use switches but i dont even know what that means. (i've never been involved in the networking part(the lan part), i just go to play(the party part). I can get a really cheap D-link DE-824TP Ethernet 24-port Hub (24 RJ-45, 1 BNC & 1 AUI) [http://www.dlink.com/../../products/hubs/de824tp/] or at least i think i can get it cheap, i will know for sure in like 8 hours. anyway, is this good for lan gaming/leeching? or should i get these switch thingies (are they cheap?) also, a hub can't share an internet connection can it? is there anything i could hook up with it to share my cable modem (obviously not 24 at a time, but if one person needs internet to dl a driver or something, ya know) can switches? also i know you need to set up ips and stuff, is that networking stuff hard to do with a hub? switches? thanks (obviously i know very little about networking, although i do have a router set up in my house . . .)