360 over lan

Helix

aloha gents, quick query that will probably get a quick answer

to play lan games on the 360 can you just hook a network cable from one box to the other?

cedomination

you probably can,if not youll need a router.

Helix

yeah was thinking you might need a router alrite, cant spare any connections on mine tho, its maxed

have 6 seperate things connecting to it at any given time

Mr Bloat

You can use a crossover cable to link them together directly but that could mean constantly swapping the cable. Better solution is to permanently network them but you don't need a router to link them up, you need a network switch. Just put all the network connections currently plugged into your router into the switch instead and then have one regular network cable going from the switch to the router.

Kristok

if you have an old adsl/cable modem around with 4 network connections you should be able to set it up to connect to your existing router to get a few extra connections going. Thats what i did saved buying a whole new router.