2 Xbox's on one broadband connection

[Weinberg]

At the moment I have an Xbox on Live, with 512k Pipex broadband and it has also ran fine for me with no lag. Someone else in the household is getting one too, with Live, and I'd want us to be able to play each other..

I'm upgrading to 1mb-is this firstly necessary (and I'm quite sure it is), and secondly will it be ok for 2 Xbox's to run on Live, playing each other (and joining in any multiplayer game) lag free? (I don't know if the fact they're in the same household rather than 1000's of miles apart makes a difference).

[mr_sockochris]

I know a couple of people who share their connection with their girlfriends and they have no problem with lag. Hosting games could be a problem as you only have 256k upload, but other than that it'll be smooth.

BUT you will need a certain router for you to be able to join each other in the same game. I don't know what this router is (i think Belkin do one) but i'll try and find out if no-one else here knows.

[Weinberg]

"BUT you will need a certain router for you to be able to join each other in the same game."

Oh dear-didn't know that. Are you sure? What I also have to do is attach another router to my current one as all four ports are full, will this solve the problem for some reason?

Also if anyone could help in a router, that would be good...I have a Dlink at the moment.

[Salsa Party Animal]

Buy a new router to chain 4 into one socket or another one with 8 socket.

[Weinberg]

Would this solve the problem then, and we'd be able to play Xbox live with each other problem free-or is that just the solution to my router running out of spaces?

[Salsa Party Animal]

It should be fine as long there is enough bandwidrh.

[randombs]

you wouldn't need another router - just connect a switch (or a hub i presume) to one of the ports. i do that at home - router downstairs connected to xbox, and then another cable going upstairs to the switch which has my pc and wireless access point hooked up to it. had no problems yet

although i haven't got two xboxes so haven't tried getting both online through live

[Roost]

As long as you are using a router as you are, you'll be fine, i used to do it loads and on ADSL it's perfectly fine as long as you don't host