Welp, vegan it is then. L

Yes. DMZ on router 1 exposes router 2 IP to internet.

By the life of the party by bringing crossover cable, allowing you run ethernet directly from one laptop to the other for some intimate social networking. Keeps the LAN uncongested for everyone else.

Nice ethernet hardware will detect if you cable is not a crossover cable in this situation and reverse the pin mappings for you.

It’s all fun and games until someone brings a USB 2.0 thumb drive.

The file could transferred over the LAN and the network de-saturated faster the file could be copied off a USB 2 drive.

I have a kid about that age interested in games. There was definitely interest in social pressure to switch to Windows for gaming for the bigger selection and what friends were playing.