A friend and I purchased two network cards and 10 meters of CAT5. We are trying to set up a network which will enable us to use one internet connection over both computers, and to play games as well! Does anyone know how to go about this and what software is best? Thanksa bundle, guys. ------------------ Nederland 2002 Rocketman95 on board. Check out his latest game recaps.
Get a Linksys DSL/Cable router, and hook up the PC's into that. Just use the TCPIP connection supplied within windows, and you are good to go. DaDakota ------------------ If you like RTS games, check out this one. www.frontierwars.com coming soon to a PC near you.
What OS do you run? What kind of connection are you sharing? Do you only want to share with one other computer? If you need to network only two computers together, and it is a cable modem/DSL (i.e. something that needs a network card), The following will be cheaper than getting a router, but not as flexible. First, the ICS (Internet connection sharing) computer will need 2 cards and the client 1 card. Then the cable b/w the 2 comps will need to be a crossover cable. This is easily accomplished with a crimping tool. Switch the 2 with the 6 and the 3 with the 8 (I think, it's been awhile. Look it up on google or something). Assuming you run WIN 98 or higher, after you have the two computers hooked up with a crossover cable and the ICS computer hooked up to the net, you will need to run the ICS wizard, which is a b**** to find. I think you can find it under Tools, Internet Options, Connections or something. I swear it exists, since I have this type of network running at home, but I can't remember how I set it up. Good Luck... [This message has been edited by Ollie (edited April 26, 2001).]
I personally use the Linksys router and have about 4 machines routed to the Internet at any given time. I love the thing. The only problem with the multi-homed solution Ollie mentioned is that it's reliant on the pc with 2 cards to be on for the 2nd pc to connect to the Internet. If that's not a problem, he's right, it's cheaper. You can get the Linksys router using coupons for under $100 in some places. Also another solution would be the SMC Barricade which provides similar functionality. The Linksys also provides a NAT-based firewall solution; I'm not sure about the Barricade but I'm sure it has something similar. The barricade can be had for around $100 + shipping and the Linksys can be had for about $120 + shipping, but I've seen pricematches and coupons around that could eventually bring the price of either to the $80-$90 range. ------------------ Yugo grills, Yugo mills, Check out the oil my Yugo spills...
Well, at the moment we have 2 PCI 10/100 Mbps Fast Ethernet card with ACPI. This should be all that is needed to create a network among the two computers. So, basically, we have not been able to establish one due to software difficulties. Do you guys know how to go about doing this in a Win98 environment? Would there be difficulty if one computer is Win98 and the other ME (as is the case for us)? Is there other software that is better for this? ------------------ Nederland 2002 Rocketman95 on board. Check out his latest game recaps.
Is a LinkSys router the same thing as a hub? Because my roomate and I have a very similar setup to what Ace is trying for, and we just hooked up each computer to some piece of crap hub we bought at some computer store. What is the difference? ------------------ Give me ambiguity or give me something else. Sign up for season 2 of the CC.net NBA Sim League! http://bbs.clutchcity.net/ubb/Forum12/HTML/000328.html
