Did you bring a hub or a switch? Is it just 10 or 10/100? Cause joe still only has a 10 NIC and he will slow us all down...
The strat on 100 LANs was to gang up on the one person who smoked everyone in the game and start grabbing stuff off their fileshare at the same time.
Replace the Ethernet cable with serial cables and it's perfect
Or at least a 2-wire cable with RJ11s