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IrelandMadMan

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:santa2: Hi there

Can someone please help me with a home network, its something ive never been good at setting up and dread doing it.


Ok What I have at the minute running on my main computer is a constant connection to the internet using a broadband modem connected to the top network socket on the back of my NF4 machine.

What I would like is for my other machine to be connected to this one for gaming and sharing files and the likes, also I would like it to be able to share this internet connection.

Is all that possible? Both boards have 2 lan slots, so is this also possible without a router?

Any links or help would be great.

Merry Christmas fellas :santa:
 
IrelandMadMan said:
:santa2: Hi there

Can someone please help me with a home network, its something ive never been good at setting up and dread doing it.


Ok What I have at the minute running on my main computer is a constant connection to the internet using a broadband modem connected to the top network socket on the back of my NF4 machine.

What I would like is for my other machine to be connected to this one for gaming and sharing files and the likes, also I would like it to be able to share this internet connection.

Is all that possible? Both boards have 2 lan slots, so is this also possible without a router?

Any links or help would be great.

Merry Christmas fellas :santa:

Its possible without a router but I would advice against it as router makes everything simpler and faster and in order for one computer to access the net the other needs to be turned on but with a router it doesn't.

Now if you choose the other non router way you first need some CAT5 networked cable but it needs to be crosslinked, when buying cable make sure its crosslinked as it will not work otherwise.

The rest of the process isn't complicated but I haven't done it in a long time so I don't want to mislead you and someone that does this more often might give you better advice but a simple google search will bring up dozens of guides.
Good luck!
 
Thanks for the reply, I think I have the right cable, from memory when I bought it it was a standard crossover cable. I did use the same cable to link the computers together at a time but I just have no idea now how i did it, I have never had a shared internet connection working before though.

:santa2:
 
rightclick on your current internet connection and inside its properties, advanced tab, tell it to share the connection. Done.
 
Ahhh Just a mess so far. Last night playing about with bridges and sharing this and that I managed to F up my internet connection on my main computer. So today I backed up my files on both computers and reloaded windows on both machines. After the reload I was able to access the internet on both computers by swapping leads between the two. I decided after the mess of last night I would use my main computer for intenet only and connect the other machine for sharing files and playing games together, but everytime I try to set up the network I lose my internet connection, so its obvious I am doing something wrong. The only way I have been able to get my internet connection back is by reloading windows.
 
Buy a router you're making something a lot more complicated than it should be....

Linksys routes are like $30 and will give your PC's more protection (From the outside world) and make your LAN a breeze to setup
 
blide30 said:
Buy a router you're making something a lot more complicated than it should be....

Linksys routes are like $30 and will give your PC's more protection (From the outside world) and make your LAN a breeze to setup

Agreed.
 
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