Portable Hubs?

Nahdude asks: "A friend of mine and I tend to have frequent mini-LAN parties in odd places like diners or parks with our laptops. We've been using a crossover cable with no problems, but recently we've attracted some attention from friends, and even some strangers, who want in on the action. So I've looked (without success) for a portable networking solution. Has anyone found and had luck with a battery powered network hub? Keeping in mind that wireless, although neat, will probably be a bit difficult because the expense of mobile wireless cards could be out of range of a lot of the people interested (we had 15 people last week in a bar, woot, but only 2 player games with crossovers because they wouldn't let us plug in a hub)." I haven't seen many of these now, but maybe if someone plants the idea in people's heads we'll see these several years from now...

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Why not go wireless???

[GreenKiwi]

Why don't you connect the computers up wirelessly?

Then you wouldn't need any hubs. You could even put wireless cards or USB adapters onto your desktop machines.

Any you'll love it for other things when you're home and just surfing the web in front of the TV.