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Subject: Halo2 16 player LAN
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hello

right i'm setting up a LAN to play halo2, I've got the X-boxes and the TVs. Couple of questions though.

1st - Should i invest in a HUB or a Switch? I'm thinking switch?
2nd - The cables. I've four Cat5 crossover cables. Will four Cat5 Crossovers be fine or do I need one crossover Cat5 for a 'host' and three patch Cat5's?
3rd- Will a mixture of X-boxes and 360s be OK? I.e. three X-boxes and an X-box 360 hooked up?

Usually i just use two TV's and two X-boxes, and connect them up with a Cat5 Crossover cable, so either of us can host the maps, so I'm thinking that the four Cat5 crossover cables will be OK. Can someone confirm this please?

Cheers

  • 06.07.2007 4:30 AM PDT
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Alright, I've done this a million times or so (slight exageration). A hub is a switch. If you're looking to buy a hub, make sure its a switch...haha, may sound confusing, but I do IT work for a living, and that's the best way I can describe it.

If you're just connecting two xboxes, you need one single crossover cable, but if you're hooking together 4 xboxes (both kinds can systemlink together, don't worry) you will need 4 standard patch cables. This is because the hub/switch recreates what the crossover cable does in the first place, it just recreates it so that four xboxes can communicate with eachother, not just two.

The reason that you can't use four crossover cat5s is because the information will be trying to send and recieve on the same channels, because of the crossover effect. Use 4 standard cat5 patch cables. Sorry about that if you've already got 4 crossovers, but at least standard cat5 cables are cheap.

PM me if you need any more help or have any questions.

  • 06.07.2007 5:37 AM PDT