I host LAN parties from time to time. I’m curious as to any suggestions on what is best to use: routers, switches, or hubs? I recently had a LAN party and was using a switch. Only 3 of the 5 computers would network and even then it was “iffy.” One of the computers could ping every other host, except it’s own IP address. NetBIOS was being it’s usual slow and strange self by only showing 2 computers in the Network Neighborhood. I unsuccessfully tried doing direct connects through the Run command with the syntax of “\\hostname.” Without having gone in and doing major troubleshooting on the software side I could not figure out what the problems were. I would appreciate any suggestions on how to take care of things in the future so we can spend more time gaming instead of trying to troubleshoot the network!