Some of you know that I'm working on a bunch of shamans and a mixed team of classes. An issue that I've run into while boxing a lot of characters has been that during a big battle, all characters can get disconnected at the same time. This happens more often at about 40 characters at the same time. I've dropped down to trying to box 36, then trying 30, but it can still happen usually during Wintergrasp when there are a lot of players around casting various spells, etc. Now keep in mind, I have all my graphics turned down for all of my instances across all of my computers. I'm not running anything I don't need outside of the game. I'm using only 3 AddOns along with Octopus 1.3.2.

My idea is to have multiple Internet cable services to my house. This would allow me to use a router for each Internet Service Provider. The major issue I see with this, other than it costs more, is that the machines connected to each router would only know about the IP addresses of the machines on that network. So Octopus wouldn't be able to connect to the machines on a different router that is connected to the other service provider. In solving that, I would think a 2nd network card in each machine would allow connectivity to all machines so that Octopus would be able to connect to all machines. The other way would be to have a wireless router that would allow connectivity to all machines while the network card in each machine controls how they would connect to the Internet through the router used for the service provider they are attached to.

If anyone has any other ideas, suggestions or constructive comments, please post.


Thanks
Prepared (multiboxer of some Horde characters on Aegwynn)