[israces]

I hooked up a router and plugged in a graphite ABS and a PS2 network adapter. I set the router up for DHCP. ABS the same way with a closed network. Most traffic (90%) is through the ABS.

As I understand it, the router will share my one IP between the ABS and the PS2 based on bandwidth need and not just divide it into half. The ABS will do the same thing to all the computers connected to it.

So, my question is: Is this the best (most effective bandwidth usage) and most secure way to do this? Any suggestions on how to do it better? Should I do everything by MAC address and then dole out static IPs from the router to the ABS and PS2?

[CyberGreg]

Unless you spent a bunch of money I doubt your router has priority routing so basically all requests are treated the same and equal priority.

The IP thing... your router has one real IP assigned (either through a static mapping or DHCP) from your ISP, it then uses NAT (Network Address Translation) for every private IP address it knows about. So there is no splitting IP's or anything.

I'd stick with having the router issue IP addresses, it's easier.

Obviously the least amount of IP addresses the router has to deal with, the better.