[Dethgod74]

Hi Ragnarok,

To answer your curiosity question, I have a number of answers, in no particular order of importance.

1) I've always wanted to own and run my own gameservers. I've got the boxes lying around, doing nothing, so I decided to put one to work. I've also got the UPLOAD bandwidth that I need to do other gameservers, like 2142 or MechWarrior 4.

2) I've wanted to do my own gameserver so I could play RTS, FPS and TB games with my sons, who live in Virginia

3) Networking PCs and running servers has always fascinated me. I've been doing it since 1996 using Windows 95. My job as the lead analyst at Cameron's Helpdesk has us supporting over 10,000 users. I'd like to move into a different, more challenging field, like our LAN or WAN group, and I figured creating my own server and managing it can't hurt me training wise.

4) If something goes wrong, one of us in our gaming group (Eat Flaming Death Gaming Club, est. 1984) can fix the problem pretty quick, minimizing down time. We won't have to depend on someone else to get our game up and going again.

I hope this answers your question.

I'll give PBW a look for the group's sake. It could be they might want to go that route if PBW allows users to create private games.

Thanks again for your time Ragnarok