lol don't waste your money on the router - gigabit ethernet won't do anything for you100 mbit = 12.5 MB/sec, which should be plenty. If you're hitting a consistent 50% of that in throughput that's when you need to look to upgradeI assume since you're CS majors you know too that cat5 was designed for 10/100 mbit and although I believe you can use it in a gigabit setup the right way to do things would be to wire it with cat5e or cat6 - network speed is determined by the highest common denominator - so the gigabit will only apply to your connection to each other - since your ISP probably offers you a connection somewhere in the neighborhood of 3mbits, as soon as you play with someone outside of your LAN your gigabit means nothing.Listen to the moderator, just get a 100 mbit router/switch and use switches instead of hubs if you need to run a lot of cable or splice a connection. I'm sure there is plenty of information out there on which routers/switches are low latency and suited for gaming, just go that route instead.
