Small multiplayer game help.

For some time I've wanted to make simple 2 to 10 player online games. I have relatively little knowledge about online play and was wondering if you could recommend some specific tutorials and reading. I haven't looked into blitzmax based online play. I'm going to be honest and say I know nothing about sockets and routers and other components. I'm not out to make a MMORPG just some simple little arcade games for a handful of people to share.

What path would you suggest?

I recently put together some code using GNet. It's not exactly a tutorial, but it might help you to get started:

http://www.blitzbasic.com/codearcs/codearcs.php?code=1908

If you wanted to use something other than GNet, then there is BNetEx - I've not used that myself, but I think quite a few others do use it:

http://vertex.dreamfall.at/bnet/bnetex165.zip

The best thing to do is have a crack at it and if you get stuck, post here for help :)

Of course, you also need to think of a game to write - I suggest starting off with something simple, perhaps building off the code above and as you beging to understand it, you can expand on it. I would also suggest starting with just 2 players.