"Gaz" <Gaz@BY.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Plebism wrote:
>> Hey all 
>>
>> Im planning a gaming meet with some of my friends and plan to use xbox
>> 360's and system link.
>>
>> The topography will be 8 systems split into two seperate rooms. One of my
>> friends has an 8 port hub which I know will work .. but that means quite
>> a bit of long network cable.
>>
>> Heres my questions ....
>>
>> Is there a way if I took my router (the WRT54G) and used that to build
>> the LAN. Then those who had the wifi connector would not need any cables
>> ... thus limiting the mess and hassle.
>>
>> Thanks
>
> Yes, should work. Those with WiFi just need your router's SSID and WPA
> key, and it should issue them with a LAN IP address each, so they will see
> each other. The router doesn't need a connection to the internet to do
> this.
>
> Those who need a wired connection could connect to one of the 4 LAN ports
> on the router, or if there's more than 4, just plug the 8-port hub into
> one of the LAN ports and use that.
>
> As long as each Xbox has an IP address issued by the router, the system
> link should work. You might want to plug a PC into the router so you can
> bring up the admin pages if you need to check the DCHP settings for
> example.
Cool - I was thinking it would work. Hopefuly there will 4 with wifi and 4
with out
As it won't be connected to the net ... there will be no need for WEP/WPA to
make things tricky
Cheers