No, I don't have my psone connected to my TV at all times, so it's better that it's small and light each time I decide to play. And for the PS2, I think I prefer the automated disc tray on the first PS2 because it's just more high tech and there's no risk of touching the console eye that reads discs.

I'm in a similar situation. I have a PS1 with 2 memory cards,4 or 5 controllers and over 80 games. Sometimes I think why am I living in the past and still playing this, and I'll want to sell it, but other times it just hits me that I might regret selling it because there's still quite a few games with good play in them. I came to a reasonable conclusion that when you've got the most out of all your games and you're really bored of them all now then that's the time to sell. If that's not a time then when is?

As others have said it depends on the game. For games like Metal Gear Solid and the original PlayStation Resident Evil series you are better with a controller. Racing games and fighting games can be played with more comfort on a controller also, as can platformers. But if you're used to the keyboard and mouse then for first person shooters you'll be fine with that.

And as for the whole keyboard and mouse vs controller for first person shooters, I've had years of experience with first person shooters on the mouse and keyboard and I've completed over a dozen first person shooters for the original Xbox using the Xbox controller, and in my opinion when you're into first person shooters on the PC for a while, you tend to think keyboard and mouse rules and the controller sucks for that genre, but when you're into consoles and lose interest in PC gaming, you tend to think the controller is perfectly satisfactory for the genre and you think I'm fine with the controller, I don't need a keyboard and mouse.

The Xbox controller was excellent for shooters though, as the thumbsticks were very accurate, moreso than the official GC controller and PS2 in my opinion.

For a game that apparently has a community of 3 million you would think you would be able to fill a 4 player campaign server very quickly whatever the time of day, which is not the case. Surely not everyone is playing Versus or Survival. It doesn't really matter anyway because the game is getting boring now.

The characters might be unfinished, because remember the early footage of L4D there was a big guy with a black beard? They must have changed him to Bill or the biker.

Whether L4D2 is worth it will depend on the price, but I'm sure Valve is reading forums to hear what you have to say about L4D2.

if your ip address is 192.168.*.* that would be your internal IP address. An internal IP address is unique only within your lan. An external address is globally unique. If you have a lan using NAT (most routers have this). Each device would be assigned a local/internal ip address 192.168.*.*, and this used exclusively to communicate within your network. All communication to the internet will go through your router which will use an external IP address.RingX5

I understand now, thanks for explaining.

Thanks for the help everyone, that will do. A mod can lock this thread now because I have no further use for it.

Belboz, I went on that website and I was able to confirm my IP address, so thanks for that.

Ch5richards, no I don't use Vista's sidebar. I searched the wired network meter you mentioned but I don't trust that third party application so I won't be using that, but thanks for the suggestion. I don't use a router, I just use a modem that is directly connected to the internet. This external IP address you speak of, do you only get that with a router? I'm confused because my IP address is coming up as my external IP. But you're saying there are two, a network IP and an external IP.

I'm sorry if this is a little off-topic but I'd rather post it here than in the Off-Topic Discussion because I feel I'd get a more knowledgeable answer here.

None, it's in a bag on top of my wardrobe.