Ok well i was looking for a very inexpensive way to connect my 2 computer. My obvios option for pure cheapness, was just to put another ethernet card in one of my computers and just use a cross-over cable, seeing as that would be fairly cheep, but yeah i was just wondering what are the downsides to this?, [besides the main computer being on for the second computer to haveinternet...] if any one has ever done this, i would apreciate sum info on it.