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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Re:The more I think on it...

[Captain Pedantic]

Nothing personal Cliff, but shouldn't their be a "Google Filter" for postings to Ask /.?

For example, this is the device you're looking for.

How did I find it? Like this. Note the search words; battery powered ethernet hub. Ok, so its a hub, not a switch, but still!

Ask /. is probably the most interesting part of the site (apart from trolltalk of course) but you also get some of the lamest submissions!