Quote Originally Posted by Xdeathfire
Btw, if you use a router and port forwarding doesn't seem to work, biggest potential problem is that you need a static ip address which was very very bothersome to set up.....
I set up our family network with static IPs at first and actually liked it that way since you always know the IPs of the PCs if you want to ping them etc.
Didn't seem to be any harder than with random IPs either, you just set them in TCP/IP settings, use the router as Gateway and DNS server and that usually worked, took a bit to figure that out, but once it works it erm, works.