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My friend and myself were wanting to have a LAN gaming session. I was wondering what kind of cable we should use and where it goes on the computers. thanx!
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Perhaps you should with LAN conguration first, then only worry about games.
These are some question regarding LAN: 1. How many PCs are there to be connected? 2. Operating system on each PC? 3. Does any of you know how to setup LAN? 4. Got beer? [img]graemlins/hehe.gif[/img] |
you will need a cat5 cable and a router or hub to patch into if Im not mistaken.
Then you will need to do some settings with your IP's and what have you. |
Each computer will need an ethernet card, many newer computers have on-board ethernet connectors. As for cabling it depends on what you want to do. If you are just going to directly connect the two machines then all you need is a cat-5 crossover cable. These are not the standard ethernet cables, they will specificly marked as crossover.
If you are going to do more then 2 computers you will need to get a hub (cheap ones are under $20), and one standard cat-5 ethernet cable for each machine. Plug one end of the cable into the machine and the other into the hub. This will allow you to network as many computers as you have ports on the hub. There is one last step, and that is setting up the network settings on each computer. Check your network settings and make sure TCP/IP is set on both computers and that each machine is set to obtain their ip address automaticly. |
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The reserved IP addresses for LAN use are: 192.168.xxx.xxx 172.[16-31].xxx.xxx and 10.xxx.xxx.xxx </pedancy> The trouble is, if one of the computers on the LAN can see the internet, and one of the computers on the LAN has the same IP as a computer on the internet, troubles may occur for you. The given addresses are actualy owned by some company somewhere, they dont seem to be in use at the moment but they could be at some point. |
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[img]graemlins/greenbounce.gif[/img] Insane </font>[/QUOTE]True and false. Using Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA) each machine will self-assign itself an IP in the range 169.254.0.0-169.254.255.255, with a subnet mask 255.255.0.0. Using fixed address is better, but more work to set up and I was too lazy to type out the instructions on how to do it [img]smile.gif[/img] |
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