if you don't mind paying the extra price as MrCoffee pointed out, then a hub would work. As a college student myself, I find the best way to use a router with traffic/bandwidth shapping for the entire house so then we can't bitch @ each other about "you are hogging all the bandwidth" etc....Security is another issue.....Router might be more secure then your average computer. keyword MIGHT which depends on releases by the manufacturer, etc.......or just knowledge of how to lock down a computer.