- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: Ubergamer
Get a router. A hub is a so called "Stupid" device. It sends data it gets to every link. While a router looks at the data packet and sends it off to the location it was sent.
Netgear makes some nice 16port routers under $100 that can also be rack mounted.
A router hasn't worked for our LAN parties. We've tryed two different types. part of the problem seems to be that only two boxes can be linked: the one in the uplink/Wide Area Network port, and one other. The problem with the router is that it gives a link between only one box and the WAN box at a time. We, ironically, need a "stupid" device to make the LAN work. Tell me if i'm wrong, but we've tryed everything possible, and my friend's brother in law is in computer engineering, and he said that that's what we need, or else one of the newer routers. The newer ones, apparently, double as an ethernet hub.