2 Hubs - One network

Hi, Im about to open a store, with 24 computers, for gaming porpouses, and I wanted to know if I could have problems if I use two 16 ports hubs to connect em.
Will the net work fine?
Is there a difference to run it with a 32 ports hub?
Can I connect one Hub to the other one, or do I need a computer with 2 network cards? If this is the case, will the computer loose resourses??

Thanks

I would suggest you to get switchs instead of hubs since you are connecting so many computers.

Go with switches not hubs. The difference is basically a switch will have a dedicated bandwidth of 10/100 for each port. Hubs do not so 10/100 hubs "share" the bandwidth between all its ports.

Also just a thought and maybe too advance a set up for you right now but have you considered having 3 segments with 8 computers a piece or 2 segments with 12? This would allow you to either run one type on game all 24 pcs or if you wanted to run Quake on one Segment, UT 2003 on another and Never Winter nights on the third you could do so with out saturating the network because each game would only need to talk to the computers on its segment. If you decide to go this route (no pun intended) you will need a router or two.

If you are going to run dedicated game servers remember that each client (player) needs about 30mghz of CPU and 10MB RAM from the server. So if you are planing on all 24 being serverd by one machine make sure you have enough resources. Also a dual 1ghz server will likely be better than a single 2ghz chip one if you run an os that allows two cpus. And lastly running 3 games of quake with 8 people per game can be more efficient than running one game with 24 people.

Hope this helps a little.