Gotta question. Me and some friends throw LAN parties every now and then, but we always have a problem. We have to get 3 or 4 routers to ALWAYS negotiate,a dn it almost always ends up in utter disaster. That's what happened last LAN party, when the internet did not work. A friend and I had worked for about an hour trying to fix it, and came up with an internet connection that worked....for 3 minutes. He had an idea. We should all chip in and buy a switch, since most of us are pretty poor. Great idea. The 'inner circle' consists of 8 people, inlcuding me. So i looked around and found this:
http://shop2.outpost.com/product/3519744
Is this a good switch to get? Anything for cheaper you know of?
I need it to be 10/100, a switch (as opposed to a hub, a switching hub is the same as a switch), and have 16 ports. A warranty is also nice.
Al of us have either a Linksys or DLink 4 port router. So we don't want a 16-port router. A hub is okay, but we'd rather get a switch, since we're playing multiplayer games.