[jhersh]

I have the DS on my home network and it has no noticable impact on performance. Perhaps it is just a difference in network hardware, but it seems unlikely. The traffic generated by the driver station is not very taxing at all. 50 packets a second is nothing compared to lots of common traffic such as downloading a file or browsing large web pages. Even with a robot talking back, it's only 100 kilobytes / sec.