No you cannot do that. In order to join the server you will have to run the same mods.So if I disable mods from the client side and not the server side will that impact it at all? Because there's honestly a bit of stuff in there that I will never use but my friends will. I guess I'm not sure how that relationship will be affected.
So the server has come to a consensus to not use Monster pack as it was just causing too much lag for too many people. We decided to give Tech World a try. It's a bit lighter on the amount of stuff loading in so we'll see how that goes.
Hey red. We are no longer using monster pack, but we have started up tech world 2. I was still experiencing some lag in that until I shifted my windows 7 settings so that it focuses more on performance than appearance. This toned down all the intensive graphical fluff that Windows was using and now I am completely lag free in our multiplayer world, running tech world 2 with the John Smith Legacy pack (32x).