Moving into my student house next year with 3 other lads (4 in total) and we have a 2MB ADSL line already installed (Should be nice) now we need a network between our PC's, in total we have 5 PC's (I have 2) and I'm looking into what hardware we need to set up this network.
Currently we have (as in me ) have a 8 port switch and a PC that could be used as a server to share the connection.
I've got 2 ideas for a network.
1: All computers connected to the switch and use the server to share the access using ICS and a program I've found to split the bandwidth between the 4 computers equally, in essance, a ADSL line for each of us.
2: Get a router so that all computers can connect to the net individually. Problem is which router to get so that it also includes a modem e.t.c and possibilly a built in firewall.
Suggestions?