Cable Forum - More than 1 ip?

As the bod who hosted that LAN party I tell you exactly what we had. My ntl 2 meg connection via the Samsung STB and a Linksys WRT54GS router. 18 computers were wired via ethernet through a series of switches simply to reduce the cabling, but the router did all the DHCP stuff for the network.

Yes we had servers for some of the LAN games, but frequently we had people playing on internet based servers especially for Batlefield 2 where more than one of the LAN based gamers were on the same internet server. I think at one time we had 6 on an internet based BF2 server.

Whilst some were LAN gaming, some were internet gaming, others were doing general web browsing often to CF including some uploads. One of our server admins was even moving data onto the new internet based clan gaming server. At times the internet response did slow up a bit, but never once did it all come tumbling down over a 40 hour period.

And before anyone says something I know about the 3 PC limit in the AUP, but it was a one off ;)